[1981] in SIPB bug reports
Tektronix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan I. Kamens)
Wed Jul 17 18:14:58 1991
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 91 15:12:14 -0700
From: "Jonathan I. Kamens" <jik@cats.UCSC.EDU>
To: chew@hplhcid.hpl.hp.com
Cc: elredmon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU, bug-sipb@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: chew@hplhcid.hpl.hp.com's message of Tue, 16 Jul 91 17:29:59 PDT <9107170030.AA29813@hplhcid.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 16 Jul 91 17:29:59 PDT
From: chew@hplhcid.hpl.hp.com
> I was wondering if there is a way to capture a screen image from
> a xterm tektronix window and then load it into a package like
> idraw so I can manipulate it and incorporate it into a LaTex
> document. The computer code I use displayes all of its pictures
> to a tektronix window so that part can not be changed. I can do
> what I want to on a PC by using a tektronix emulator VTEK and
> dumping the screen image to a LOTUS PIC file for loading into
> FREELANCE. VTEK can also dump to a ADOBE POSTSCRIPT if that is of
> any help.
> ps - sorry if this is the wrong email address to use but I
> couldn't find another.
Idraw reads in its own PostScript format. It is NOT a full postscript
interpreter and thus cannot do what you ask. Unfortunately, the ability
to manipulate screen dumps is pretty weak. I know of no program that
can easily do this for you.
What Chee has written above is true, but not really a complete answer
to your question.
It is true that it is impossible to load an image generated in a tek
window into idraw, or into any of the other graphics manipulation
packages that we currently have available to us.
However, you *can* incoroporate the images created in the tek window
into your latex documents, as long as you're willing to do so without
modifying them in any way.
Start up the xterm that you're going to do the tek displaying in, in
the /tmp directory (i.e. type "cd /tmp" before you run the xterm).
Then, after you've displayed the image in the tek window, click
ctrl-middle-button and select the "COPY" option, which will produce a
file in /tmp with a long name starting with "COPY". Run "ps4014
filename > file.PS" where "filename" is the name starting with "COPY",
and you'll get a PostScript file containing your image. You can then
include this PostScript file in your latex document.
If you don't know how to do that, I suggest you ask about it in "olc",
and they can help you out.
Speaking of which, you probably could have gotten the answer to your
original question by asking about it in "olc" rather than by sending
mail to bug-sipb. Whatever.... we're pretty casual :-).
--> Jonathan Kamens
Project Athena Quality Assurance and User Consulting
Treasurer, Student Information Processing Board (SIPB)
jik@Athena.MIT.EDU
