import

import

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION EXAMPLES OPTIONS ENVIRONMENT SEE ALSO COPYRIGHT AUTHORS

NAME

import - capture some or all of an X server screen and save the image to a file.

SYNOPSIS

import [__ ''options'' __...? file

DESCRIPTION

Import reads an image from any visible window on an X server and outputs it as an image file. You can capture a single window, the entire screen, or any rectangular portion of the screen. Use display for redisplay, printing, editing, formatting, archiving, image processing, etc. of the captured image.

The target window can be specified by id, name, or may be selected by clicking the mouse in the desired window. If you press a button and then drag, a rectangle will form which expands and contracts as the mouse moves. To save the portion of the screen defined by the rectangle, just release the button. The keyboard bell is rung once at the beginning of the screen capture and twice when it completes.

EXAMPLES

To select an X window or an area of the screen with the mouse and save it in the MIFF image format to a file entitled window.miff, use:

import window.miff

To select an X window or an area of the screen with the mouse and save it in the Encapsulated Postscript format to include in another document, use:

import figure.eps

To capture the entire X server screen in the JPEG image format in a file entitled root.jpeg, without using the mouse, use:

import -window root root.jpeg

To capture the 512x256 area at the upper right corner of the X server screen in the PNG image format in a well-compressed file entitled corner.png, without using the mouse, use:

import -window root -crop 512x256-0+0 -quality 90 corner.png

OPTIONS

Options are processed in command line order. Any option you specify on the command line remains in effect until it is explicitly changed by specifying the option again with a different effect.

Import options can appear on the command line or in your X resources file. See X(1). Options on the command line supersede values specified in your X resources file.

For a more detailed description of each option, see !ImageMagick(1).

-bordercolor

the border color

-cache

megabytes of memory available to the pixel cache

-colors

preferred number of colors in the image

-colorspace

the type of colorspace

-comment

annotate an image with a comment

-crop

preferred size and location of the cropped image

-debug

enable debug printout

-delay

display the next image after pausing

-density

vertical and horizontal resolution in pixels of the image

-depth

depth of the image

-descend

obtain image by descending window hierarchy

-display

specifies the X server to contact

-dispose

GIF disposal method

-dither

apply Floyd/Steinberg error diffusion to the image

-endian

specify endianness (MSB or LSB) of output image

-frame

include the X window frame in the imported image

-geometry

preferred size and location of the Image window.

-help

print usage instructions

-interlace

the type of interlacing scheme

-label

assign a label to an image

-monochrome

transform the image to black and white

-negate

replace every pixel with its complementary color

-page

size and location of an image canvas

-pause

pause between snapshots [import?

-ping

efficiently determine image characteristics

-pointsize

pointsize of the Postscript, OPTION1, or !TrueType font

-quality

JPEG/MIFF/PNG compression level

-resize

resize and locate an image

-rotate

apply Paeth image rotation to the image

-sampling_factor

sampling factors used by JPEG encoder.

-scene

set scene number

-screen

specify the screen to capture

-silent

operate silently

-snaps

number of screen snapshots

-transparent

make this color transparent within the image

-trim

trim an image

-verbose

print detailed information about the image

For a more detailed description of each option, see !ImageMagick(1).

ENVIRONMENT

DISPLAY

SEE ALSO

animate(1), display(1), composite(1), conjure(1), convert(1), identify(1), mogrify(1), montage(1),

ImageMagick(1)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2002 !ImageMagick Studio

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The software is provided

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AUTHORS

John Cristy, !ImageMagick Studio LLC, Glenn Randers-Pehrson, !ImageMagick Studio LLC.