[GRASSLIST:2277] Re: Poor quality PNG file driver output

[Glynn Clements]

Jason Horn wrote:

> Thanks so much for your response.  I found your scripts elsewhere on 
> the web and have already had a go at using them.  The PNG script uses 
> the same commands that I was referring to, so the output is the same.  
> The xwd script works better, but the output is still NOT a match to 
> what I see on the screen in the GRASS monitor.  The xwd output tends to 
> dither areas of flat color, so that's not acceptable either.

I have found xwd to be unreliable on true-colour displays. If you have
either ImageMagick or GIMP, both of those have a screen-grabbing
feature which can be used instead of xwd.

-- 
Glynn Clements <glynn.clements at virgin.net>