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Conference tnpubs::i-exchange

Title:I-TEAM/SES CONFERENCE
Moderator:TNPUBS::EWART
Created:Wed May 10 1995
Last Modified:Wed Nov 27 1996
Last Successful Update:Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:49
Total number of notes:126

48.0. "Motif/UTOX help requested" by TNPUBS::PHALEN () Mon Oct 28 1996 14:22

    I have an installation guide written with VAX Document.  I want to
    add screen captures from a Motif-based user interface to the
    document.
    
    I have found a UTOX Users Guide and Installation guide and I am
    working my way through that.
    
    Does anyone have any recommendations for capturing those screens?
    
    Regards,
    alice
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48.1UTOX, RAGS, XV, etc...CRAYON::GENTRevolutionize yourselfMon Oct 28 1996 23:0718
    Gee, UTOX seems an obvious choice :-)
    
    You can also use DECwindows Print Screen to save the entire screen
    or a potion of it to PostScript or DDIF. 
    
    RAGS (a.k.a the VAX DOCUMENT graphics editor) has screen capture
    capabilities as well and, I believe, was claimed to be the replacement
    for UTOX. 
    
    Finally, you can use XV and do a "grab". The nice feature about XV
    is that you simply click on the window you want to capture and XV
    does all the work of cropping to the window edges. The difficulty
    is that you have to then write it out as tiff or gif and read it into
    UTOX to convert it into something you can use in VAX DOCUMENT.
    (You might be able to use the PostScript output, but then you won't
    have anything if you need to create Bookreader output.)
    
    --Andrew
48.2pointerDOCTP::CARRASCO`Compassion is wealth'Thu Oct 31 1996 14:448
Alice,

There was much discussion on this topic in the DOCUMENT conference back when
Motif was young.  You could try searching for notes by Ross Warner or myself.
He posted a "recommended procedure" for getting screens on paper.


Pilar.
48.3(Imperfect?) memoryFORTY2::KNOWLESPer ardua ad nauseamMon Nov 04 1996 06:5016
    Alice -
    
    If you've already invested a lot of time in learning UTOX, I don't see
    why you should use anything new, although I remember at the time when
    RAGS V2 hit the streets I thought that the Digitize menu choice was
    easier to use (by avoiding the b/w problem discussed in the rest of
    this note).
    
    Most of what you have to do with UTOX is obvious (unless you use the -
    groogh - command-line interface). The main stumbling block that I can
    recall is if you have a colour monitor. When you try to save your
    capture (which itself works like a charm) UTOX complains about the
    `level'. I've forgotten the long-hand for the way to avoid this, but
    the shortcut is <ctrl/1> (with UTOX as the active window of course).
    
    b