[Freeciv-Dev] Re: rendering maps as single images

[Jason Short <jdorje@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon Craig Rhodes wrote:
> Daniel L Speyer <dspeyer@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
>
> > Why not just make the freeciv window really big (larger than your
> > screen) and use GIMP's window-capture option?  It may not be the most
> > elegant or scriptable, but it works.
>
> This was actually my first thought, but on my system the GIMP will
> only grab the part of the window that lies on the screen - making the
> window larger by dragging its corner across my virtual desktop just
> results in part of the window getting cut off.
Have you tried xwd?  It may end up having the same limitation (maybe 
GIMP uses xwd?), but maybe not.
  jdorje:~/foo$ xwd > map.dump
     <click on a window>
  jdorje:~/foo$ convert map.dump map.png

jason