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diff --git a/support/xwpick/xwpick-2.10.README b/support/xwpick/xwpick-2.10.README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..32a9ee62a5 --- /dev/null +++ b/support/xwpick/xwpick-2.10.README @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +XWPICK - X Windows Image Pick up Utility. + + +GENERAL INFO +============ + +Xwpick lets you pick an image from an arbitrary window or rectangular +area of an X11-server and write it to a file in a variety of formats. + +Why xwpick? + + o Xwpick is convenient in use. The onmipresent blinking rectangle + surrounding the area to be picked and involment of the keyboard + input in addition to the mouse help to get rid of numerous parameters, + nevertheless satisfying in quite a natural way the most common needs + of users, namely, picking an image from a selected window or from + an arbitrary rectangular area and a possibility to change the + selected image just before outputing to a file. + + Xwpick also allows to pick images from pop-up menus, which are on the + screen only when the mouse button is pressed and disappear immediately + after the button is released. + + o Xwpick can output images in various formats: different PostScripts, + GIF, PCX (IBM PC), PICT (Macintosh), PPM (PBM Plus). + + o Xwpick runs not only on UNIX platforms, but on OpenVMS (VAX/Alpha) + as well. + + o Xwpick uses the Lempel-Ziv Welch (LZW) compression algorithm for + image encoding in PostScript, thus producing very compact files: + 3-5 time less than files produced with Run Length Encoding (RLE) and + 10-30 times less than files produced without compression. + + PostScipt files produced by XWPICK automatically understand on what + kind of printer they are being output. On level 2 PostScript printers + the native LZW/ASCII85 decoding filters will be invoked, while on + level 1 printers the inline decompression code is executed. Rendering + time on level 2 printers is pretty fast (usually less than 1 minute), + on level 1 printers the image rendering, of cause, is much slower, but + nevertheless essentially faster than for Run Length Encoded PostScript + images. + + +LIMITATION +========== + +Xwpick does not work on 24-bit DirectColor/TrueColor devices. + + +AUTHOR +====== + +Evgeni Chernyaev +chernaev@mx.ihep.su + + + + |