On Thursday 21 February 2002 10:43 am, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote: > >>>>> "Angus" == Angus Leeming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Angus> Your long conversion times from eps to xpm may be because > Angus> you're using ImageMagick's "convert" to do the conversion. Look > Angus> at the converters in > Preferences-> Conversion. convert is pretty slow. The netpbm tools can > Preferences-> be much > Angus> quicker. > > I'd be very interested to have people agree on that. If this is the > case, we'll have to make netpbm the default. Could someone try it out?
Apparently it doesn't work with eps (Dekel's comment) and you'll need a shell script wrapper for pstoppm. I think. Note further that some versions of convert produce crudy XPM files with colours defined #ffef060000ee or something rather than just #ffef06. libXPM definitely, definitely hates this. I personally have been using convert to create PPM files from EPS and then ppmtoxpm to create valid XPM files. A
