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<h1>Screenshot program for Linux text console(s)</h1>
<h2 class=level2> 0. Contents </h2>
This is the documentation of snapscreenshot-1.0.14.2. <div class=toc><table cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 class=toc><tr><td width="50%" valign=middle align=left nowrap class=toc> 1. <a href="h0">Purpose</a><br> 2. <a href="h1">Copying</a><br></td> <td width="50%" valign=middle align=left nowrap class=toc> 3. <a href="h2">FAQ</a><br> 4. <a href="h3">Requirements</a><br> 5. <a href="#download">Downloading</a><br></td> </tr></table></div><H2 class="level2"><a name="h0"></a>1. Purpose</H2><div class="level2">
<pre class=smallerpre>snapscreenshot version 1.0.14 Copyright (C) 1992,2002 Bisqwit (http://bisqwit.iki.fi/)
Takes snapshot from your Linux console(s) and outputs a Targa file. You can use convert(1) to convert the resulting image to various formats.
Usage: snapscreenshot [-hfb1cxV] > snap.tga
-h, --help Help -f, --fontwidth Font width (8 or 9, default: 9) -b, --border Border colour (0..15, default: 9) -1, --firstwin Specify the index of first window -c, --num Specify number of windows (default: 6) -x, --alongside Specify number of windows horizontally (4) -V, --version Version information
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</div><H2 class="level2"><a name="h1"></a>2. Copying</H2><div class="level2">
snapscreenshot has been written by Joel Yliluoma, a.k.a.
<a href="http://iki.fi/bisqwit/">Bisqwit</a>,<br>
and is distributed under the terms of the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/licenses.html#GPL">General Public License</a> (GPL).
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If you happen to see this program useful for you, I'd
appreciate if you tell me :) Perhaps it would motivate
me to enhance the program.
</div><H2 class="level2"><a name="h2"></a>3. FAQ</H2><div class="level2">
<b>Q</b>:
I have 132x50 text mode with 8x8 font, and when I take
a snapshot, it looks very wide and not tall... Why does
snapscreenshot mess the ratio?<br>
<b>A</b>:
snapscreenshot doesn't save or even know about dot-per-inch
ratios, and neither do most image display programs.<br>
132x50 with 8x8 font means 1054x400 pixel resolution,
and you clearly can see that 1054 is over two times 400.<br>
So it really is wider than its tall.
Your monitor just squashes the pixels horizontally.<br>
If you want a regular 1.25 ratio image, you have to either
squeeze it horizontally or stretch it vertically by
using an image conversion program like Imagemagick.<br>
</div><H2 class="level2"><a name="h3"></a>4. Requirements</H2><div class="level2">
GNU make is probably required.<br>
The program only works in Linux (I don't know
any other unix clones having /dev/vcs* -devices).
</div><H2 class="level2"><a name="download"></a>5. Downloading</H2><div class="level2">
The official home page of snapscreenshot
is at <a href="http://iki.fi/bisqwit/source/snapscreenshot.html">http://iki.fi/bisqwit/source/snapscreenshot.html</a>.<br>;
Check there for new versions.
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