On Thursday 11 July 2002 6:22 pm, Garst R. Reese wrote:
> Herbert Voss wrote:
> > ok, one step further ...
>
> Herbert, I get the same problems with ps files and have to switch from
> monochrome to greyscale to see a decent picture even though the graphics
> are B/W. This is a side affect of your switch from using gs to convert.
> If you still have the file I sent you, just try viewing it in B/W.
> Garst
Well then, don't use convert, use gs.
Use this as a converter from /any/ PostScript type file to ppm format:
gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dSAFER -sDEVICE=pnm -sOutputFile=$$o $$i
In addition, you should comment out the lines 422-426 in xformsImage.C
#ifdef HAVE_FLIMAGE_ENABLE_PS
// xforms recognises PS but not EPS
flimage_enable_ps();
#endif
If you're using xforms 0.88, you'll need to define also a converter from ppm
to xpm. I'd recommend ppmtoxpm.
I think that this is probably the way to go anyway, as it'll let gs deal with
"nasty" PostScript files and not us.
Try it out and let us know.
Angus
