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Conference bulova::decw_jan-89_to_nov-90

Title:	DECWINDOWS 26-JAN-89 to 29-NOV-90
Notice:	See 1639.0 for VMS V5.3 kit; 2043.0 for 5.4 IFT kit
Moderator:	STAR::VATNE

Created:	Mon Oct 30 1989
Last Modified:	Mon Dec 31 1990
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	3726
Total number of notes:	19516

1016.0. "Capture screen then print the file to LJ250?" by HGOSPS::LIWAICHUNG () Mon Jun 26 1989 06:58

    Hi,
    
    I have looked through notes about LJ250 and found that DECwindow
    does not support LJ250 with printscreen.
    
    My question is it possible to capture portion of screen to a file
    in SIXEL format then print it out to the LJ250.
    
    The problem is how to setup the terminal print queue for LJ250 since
    the LJ250 is now attached to the terminal port of a PVAX.
    
    For the time being, we set up the queue as unknow device type since
    LJ250 is not a supportted terminal device type.
    
    The result comes out with exact graphics that what we want but black
    in color. The original display on window ,of course, is colorful.
    
    Any suggestions.
    
    Chung.

T.R	Title	User	Personal Name	Date	Lines
1016.1		MU::PORTER	l'enregistrement electrique	`Mon Jun 26 1989 10:12`	10
	The problem is that "capture screen" converts to a bitonal image -- so if you used the session manager's screen-capture mechanism, it's too late to try and print it in colour. There is an internal-only program called UTOX which will do screen captures using colour sixel format (and a whole lot more). I have successfully used that for various things. I can't unfortunately remember where to get the UTOX kit.
1016.2	UTOX just for INTERNAL!!!	HGOSPS::LIWAICHUNG		`Mon Jun 26 1989 11:05`	7
	Thanks for quick response. UTOX is for INTERNAL use only, what is about customer's concerns? In other words, does DECwindow offically support LJ250 as color printer? Chung.
1016.3		MU::PORTER	l'enregistrement electrique	`Mon Jun 26 1989 13:38`	2
	No.
1016.4	V2.0	AVIATE::SHAH	Yanks in '89	`Thu Jul 06 1989 22:56`	6
	But I believe DECwindows V2.0 will support color printing... -PS
1016.5	ex	BONZOD::JOHN		`Fri Jul 07 1989 11:16`	19
	regards color printing. UTOX will give you color but I would like to ask: 1. IS DECwindows V2.0 going to support color print portion of screen or not? 2. If it is is this support in the FT version now available? or do we have to wait for SDC version? 3. If it will be on SDC version, any ideas on release date? UTOX does do color. But I don't want to send lots of time figuring out how to get only a portion of the screen (croped) in color or traning 10 users how to use UTOX if COLOR printscreen is comming soon.
1016.6	Color print screen is on it's way	STAR::BMATTHEWS		`Fri Jul 07 1989 12:10`	5
	Color print screen is coming in DECWindows V2. There is support in the field test versions although I believe there are some problems with it that will be fixed for external field test which should be out this month. Bill
1016.7		CSOA1::WILKINS		`Thu Mar 29 1990 11:21`	16
	We have a customer with a bunch of VAXstations, some running VMS 5.3 and some running Desktop-VMS 1.01. My understanding is DECwindows 2.0 supports color printing, and is included with VMS 5.3 but not Desktop-VMS 1.01. Is this correct? Now, a few users want to print their screens to an LJ250, some running VMS5.3 and some Desktop-VMS 1.01. Do they need UTOX on all their machines to do it? Or can the VMS5.3 machines do it without any additional software? And how? Unfortunately we don't have an LJ250 here in the office so I can't try anyting out before going to the customer site. Any info would be appreciated. Mark
1016.8	need to patch the server	TOOLEY::B_WACKER		`Thu Mar 29 1990 11:37`	7
	To get color sixel from the 5.3 server you'll need to get a patch from the CSC or wherever you get them from. It works better, but I get horizontal stripes on the lj250 that don't appear if you type it to a terminal. Another specialist here also got them, but I don't know why and gave up switching cables and changing terminal attributes.