[GoLUG] Xterm screenshots

Steve Litt slitt at troubleshooters.com
Tue Mar 12 13:31:45 EDT 2024


Ron / BCLUG said on Tue, 12 Mar 2024 10:01:57 -0700

>Steve Litt wrote on 2024-03-11 21:52:
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>> * Select SVG Screen dump
>> * Look for the xterm*.svg in the dir in which the xterm started  
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>I'm very curious on how a screenshot can be converted to a valid SVG.
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>Can you share one on the list?
>
>
>Or, the output of this command run against the screenshot SVG:
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>file $xterm-output.svg
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>
>I get the following:
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> > src/logo.svg: SVG Scalable Vector Graphics image  
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>
>
>SVG is a really cool format but I can't imagine how this would work, 
>other than similar to how a PDF that merely contains a JPG file works.

I've attached an SVG screenshot. You can view it with a browser and
with an editor to see its makeup. It's not at all a JPG inside an SVG.

>Of course, "Screen *dump*" is probably throwing me off here. Still, 
>would like to see example output...

Attached!

By the way, you can similarly screenshot it as an XHTML.

SteveT

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