Re: [screen-devel] screendump to png

[Folkert van Heusden]

>> It would be nice if something got added to screen so that it can write
>> screendumps to a .png-file. As far as i know it can currently only write
>> ascii black&white dumps to a textfile.
> A full .png feature would be major bloat in screen, particularly since
> someone would end up complaining about the font or colors selected, and
> request a feature to change them.  Screen really doesn't do anything
> with graphics; instead, it dumps all of that work to the terminal.
> However, a new command to write a screen dump with ansi color escape
> sequences shouldn't be too hard, and could end up being useful for much
> more than the .png-dump feature.

Totally agree.

I looked into extending the Linux 'screendump'-command to emit
ansi-codes as well but it seems vcsa devices only emit the
forerground colors.

> Similarly, someone could write a program that would read such a
> color-enabled screen dump and produce a .png pseudo-screenshot.  That
> program could easily have options to set the font and colors without
> appearing bloated, because they're directly related to its main purpose.
> Such a program could also be useful for more than a .png-dump feature.
> I wouldn't even be surprised if it already exists.
> However, nobody will write either portion of the solution without some
> incentive.  If you're lucky, that incentive could be as simple as
> thinking that they might want such a feature for their own benefit.
> Otherwise, you might be able to hire a teenager down the street.

Yes, or me. An hour work I guess.


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