Gimp Q

[Paul Melson]

On Sun, Jul 09, 2000 at 12:40:03AM -0400, Alan Garrison wrote:
> I've been doing screen captures of particular windows 
> in Xfree from the Tk apps I've been writing for my 
> tutorial (which I'm still working on, whoops! :) and 
> the screencaps are coming out grainy.  I usually run 
> X in 32-bit mode, so I dropped down to 8-bit mode.  They 
> are still grainy without any modification in Gimp (which 
> is what I'm using for the captures).  I can clean them up 
> a little using posterize, but I am wondering is there 
> something I can set to make the captured image as clear 
> as the actual window?  I'm still on XFree 3.3.5/6 (not 
> 4.0), and it does it on two of my machines.


	I'm not positive, but I have a couple of ideas.
	First, try saving the files initially as .xpm's.
	That's how the image is read by the X server,
	so at least in theory it's a straight conversion.
	Another thing to try would be to use an alternate 
	method of creating your screenshots.  Try using
	xwd or ksnapshot and see if image quality improves.


PaulM

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