how to copy text and image on screen to a file

[Bill Hassell]

You are using Xwindows for character screens and that makes for a very difficult copy/print scenario. Xwindows was designed for graphics but corresponding features to capture the screens are very proprietary (xwd) and no built-in tools will copy the bitmap to a printer. There are no built-in tools to convert this xwd file to a PC-friendly format like JPEG or TIFF.

The reason is that Xwindows was designed for Unix workstations, not PCs. Your PC is pretending to be the graphic console on a workstation through the use of special software. Indeed, the character mode window (xterm, dtterem, hpterm) is actually resident on the HP-UX box -- you're just redisplaying the image on your PC.

One way to capture the text is simply use your mouse to highlight the text and copy the desired area. Then open a copy of Notepad (*not* Word or some other word processor) and paste the text into Notepad. Notepad is a pure ASCII program and text will now be portable.

However, it is much, much simpler to bypass all the Xwindow junk and simply use telnet, either the PC's built-in telnet command in the DOS command window, or a separate emulator like Hyperterminal. Now your screen is local to your PC and all the normal File -> Print choices will work.

[Pete Randall]

In HP-UX running CDE, there is a command called xwd, which will "dump an image of an X window". You can then use the companion command xwud to display the image or xpr to print it. Check the man pages for xwd, xwud, and xpr.


Pete

[cys691018]

Thanks for your good solutions .

[Raj D.]

Though xwd captures the screen , but the image is not very clear. Just fyi.

hth,
Raj.

[cys691018]

From those replies and solutions ,I got the answer ro my question.