[Novalug] how do you capture Google's satellite photographs (or, does linux have a 'dump screen' utility?)

[Bonnie Dalzell]

On Mon, 25 Aug 2008, Nino Pereira wrote:

NP >Hi,
NP >
NP >I wanted to send a satellite photograph by email, so I printed the
NP >map found with Google Maps to a file. This gives only the underlying
NP >map, not the satellite photograph that's on top of it (and, my map
NP >didn't have any roads so that it was completely blank).
NP >
NP >Any suggestions on how to do this?

Ubuntu comes with a print screen application. I use it a lot to capture 
images from the web that are "protected" from a simple "save image 
as" choice from right clicking the mouse when it is over the 
image to be saved.

The screenshot application is called 

gnome-screenshot

Gnome screenshot will grab the window the mouse is over or the entire 
screen


NP >
NP >I succeeded by dumping the screen, with the utility 'xwd': in an
NP >x-window you type
NP >
NP >xwd -out mapfile
NP >
NP >this gives you a crosshair, which you place on the x-window you want
NP >to capture. Then, you click the mouse, and there it is.
NP >
NP >You can see what you got with
NP >
NP >xwud -in mapfile
NP >
NP >Then, you can read 'mapfile' into the Gimp, and edit it.
NP >
NP >While I still would like to know how to do it easier, I didn't know
NP >xwd or xwud. So, I thought you might want to try it too.
NP >
NP >Nino
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