[esp-r] Re: screen capture questions

[Jon Hand]

The package you are looking for is imagemagick.  It is quite simple to install
this via the Ubuntu Synaptic Package Manager.

But Ubuntu might also come with other ways of doing a screen capture. The
true benefit of the 'import' application is that it can be started up in a small
command line window that does not cover up the ESP-r application (other
capture tools may involve a pop-up dialog which will tend to cause ESP-r to
try and re-draw the image as you are capturing it.

-Jon Hand
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Lukas Swan (Dal) [lswan at dal.ca]
Sent: 07 January 2009 16:26
To: esp-r at strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r]  screen capture questions

Hi
First:
I am having trouble capturing the rendering screen in esp-r and the error is that I appear to be missing the program “import”. I had a look in the package manager, but only found one relatively large program (>100 MB) and something for R (statistical analysis tool).
Does anyone have any help on this or where to pick up the program? I am using Ubuntu.

Second:
Assuming I get “import” working and can capture the esp-r screen, I would like to do a batch process to capture the screens of many different models. I can easily write an automated program to open each model in prj. Is there any way to go through the text mode and still have it save a image of the model? I would like to verify that my batch process for model development is working on a wide range of models using a visual check.

Regards
Lukas Swan
Dalhousie Univ.
Canada