Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Thompson
Marco gets the diagnostic prize!! Font name was the issue. Used -font Helvetica, and all went like a charm!! So, thank you, Marco. > use a font name recognized by unix and not a windows one, > eg -font Helvetica > > to look on font name a use xfontsel from xterm. > > -- Problem reports:

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/14/2012 9:42 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: I will try that tonight. The other install of ImageMagick also gave me the arial font error, but handled it more gracefully. Is there some way to getting the fonts on to the path so that I don't need to do the copy around? It seems odd that fonts can

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Thompson
> Paul, > it is not a rebase error. > It is ImageMagick mishandling the missing font. > > GraphickMagick equivalent is correctly handling the case and the > error message is more clear. > > $ gm montage -label "D Brausch Wedding,1951" zimg002.miff -font Arial > -pointsize 20 -frame 40 -geometry +0

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/14/2012 7:44 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: There's autorebase, which is called from setup, but the method is not entirely foolproof. If you installed exactly once and then don't start setup again unless new packages are available, you're ok, but if you start setup a couple of times to install mo

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Thompson
>There's autorebase, which is called from setup, but the method is not >entirely foolproof. If you installed exactly once and then don't start >setup again unless new packages are available, you're ok, but if you >start setup a couple of times to install more packages you forgot in >the first run,

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 10:56, Paul Thompson wrote: > > > > Wow. That's rather unexpected. Unfortunately the error code -2 is just > > an artefact, not the actual error code. I fixed that in CVS. Did you > > try if rebaseall fixes this issue? > > > > > > OK, I just learned about rebaseall. I am not actually

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/14/2012 11:56 AM, Paul Thompson wrote: Wow. That's rather unexpected. Unfortunately the error code -2 is just an artefact, not the actual error code. I fixed that in CVS. Did you try if rebaseall fixes this issue? OK, I just learned about rebaseall. I am not actually on the machine

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Thompson
> > Wow. That's rather unexpected. Unfortunately the error code -2 is just > an artefact, not the actual error code. I fixed that in CVS. Did you > try if rebaseall fixes this issue? > > OK, I just learned about rebaseall. I am not actually on the machine in question, and will try this tonight

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Corinna Vinschen
On Aug 14 09:15, Paul Thompson wrote: > I thought I submitted to the right queue, but clearly did not. Perhaps > my mail did not get received. > > I have run cygcheck as requested and attached the output cygcheck.out > to this email > > I run the following commands: > > d2u dirlist.txt > convert

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/14/2012 11:14 AM, Adam Dinwoodie wrote: Paul Thompson wrote: Marco: I followed the error reporting directions. How long is the usual wait for a response? I've only found two messages from you on this list: - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00251.html - http://cygwin.com/ml/cyg

RE: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-14 Thread Adam Dinwoodie
Paul Thompson wrote: > Marco: I followed the error reporting directions. How long is the usual wait > for a response? I've only found two messages from you on this list: - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00251.html - http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2012-08/msg00297.html This implies you'v

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-13 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 8/13/2012 8:04 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: Marco: I followed the error reporting directions. How long is the usual wait for a response? Marco is generally rather prompt with replies but there is no time limit for replies on this list. I'm sure you'll he

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-13 Thread Paul Thompson
marco atzeri gmail.com> writes: > > > > Marco: I followed the error reporting directions. How long is the usual wait for a response? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html

Re: imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-12 Thread marco atzeri
On 8/12/2012 2:32 PM, Paul Thompson wrote: I have installed cygwin. I am trying to use a combination of bash, imagemagick, LaTeX, and a few other packages. I have issues with imagemagick. If I run imagemagick installed externally, i get no problems - run cleanly. When I try to run imagemagick (s

imagemagick errors under cygwin on 64-bit Win 7 system

2012-08-12 Thread Paul Thompson
I have installed cygwin. I am trying to use a combination of bash, imagemagick, LaTeX, and a few other packages. I have issues with imagemagick. If I run imagemagick installed externally, i get no problems - run cleanly. When I try to run imagemagick (specifically, the montage tool) by a bash she