Screen capture to an image file - GIF, JPEG, whatever

["Chris Abney" <chrisabney@hotmail.com>]

Hi all,

I have been wrestling with this task and I hope I haven't overlooked 
something easy.
If I have, will someone please disappoint me?

I know I can use java.awt.Robot to capture the screen to an Image 
(BufferedImage).
But I don't know how to convert the raw image data to a standard format.

I can't use a third party component that involves licensing or anything like 
that.

Is there a reasonable way to do this?


Thanks
Chris
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