[l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
Darrell
dr6583@earthlink.net
Wed, 18 Dec 2002 03:39:13 -0600
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ross Moore" <ross@ics.mq.edu.au>
To: <hooklee@sina.com>
Cc: <latex2html@tug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2002 11:11 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
>
> > Dear Ross Moore,
> >
> > Thanks for your help. Stragely, it seems that config.bat have
successfully find AFPL Ghostscript 8.00. The following is the segmented
texts in config.log after running config.bat:
> >
> > .......
> > checking for gswin32c... C:\gs\gs8.00\bin\gswin32c.exe
> > checking for ghostscript version... 8.00
> > .......
>
> Hmm.
> So it looks like it found that OK -- which is good.
> That leaves me mystified about what else might be the problem.
This looks like that same ol' problem with L2H on Windows that is mentioned
here from time to time, the cause of which (AFAIK) has never been identified
or resolved. At first, I had the same problem but I did something (?) and
have not experienced it since, but I have subsequently replaced my drive and
did a clean install w/ no problems. All I can offer is what I know to be a
successful installation on an NT box (copied from an email to someone else
some time ago.) Note particularly suggestion 4 and the rmarks that follow
regarding netpbm. IIRC, one or the other (or both) is what cured the
problem for me, and I was getting the exact errors you were.
1. Don't use the same temp folder as the operating system does. Make a new
temp folder, \l2htemp or somesuch, for l2h's exclusive use. Modify
prefs.pm accordingly. I am using drive F:
$prefs{'TMPSPACE'} = 'F:\\l2htemp';
2. Also in prefs.pm, make the target directory name l2h. From your log, it
appears you have already made this mod:
$prefs{'PREFIX'} = 'F:\\l2h';
3. Find the local initialization file, dot.latex2html-init. It's in the
same folder as prefs.pm. If left alone, this will definitely be a problem
(if not now it will be later, so fix it now.) The "dot" is a result of NT's
inability to correctly parse the filename during decompressing of the
archive. L2h thinks this file is named .latex2html-init (with leading
period instead of "dot"). I am assuming that 9x will similarly parse this
filename
incorrectly, but even if it is correct you want to rename it. Leading
periods in filenames can sometines wreak havoc with DOS command
interpreters. Rename it to something command.com can properly dealt with,
e.g. l2hinit is what I use. It is
necessary to inform l2h of the change, obviously. Before running
config.bat, modify the l2hconf.pin file, which during execution of
config.bat is built to l2hconf.pm. This is the global config file for l2h.
# Local initialization files are usually named .latex2html-init
# this name is hard-coded as the default with the latex2html script
# It can be changed here, if desired:
#
# $INIT_FILE_NAME = '.latex2html-init';
Do not just uncomment and change this last line from '.latex2html-init' to
'l2hinit'. That won't work. Instead, just leave that line commented and
add this new line:
$INIT_FILE_NAME = $ENV{'L2HINIT_NAME'} || 'l2hinit';
***Ross---For the benefit of windows users, it would be great if you could
have the install take care of this automatically if a windows OS is present
(and the renaming of the init file to match, too).
4. Change the default image type from png to gif. Not really necessary,
but recommended since many browsers do not correctly render transparent
png's. Although it may appear that l2h is not correctly rendering a
transparent png, it is actually the web browser that is the culprit.
***Also I have noticed with some versions of netpbm, the test.bat will error
out when trying to convert images. It will simply say "Error converting
image" or somesuch, or in my case being on NT, in addition to that error I
will get an NT error about a procedure entry point png_get_header_ver could
not be located. This NT message does not appear on 9x, AFAIK, only the
errors regarding the generation of images. I did not have this problem with
previous versions of netpbm, so if png's are desirable one may wish to try
downgrading the netpbm utilities. Several older versions should be
available at Sourceforge.
Otherwise, if you wish to use gif's instead, as most do I suppose, make this
mod either in l2hconf.pin (before running config.bat) or directly to
l2hconf.pm (after running config.bat):
@IMAGE_TYPES = qw(gif png);
The default has the order reversed, i.e. qw(png gif). Also be sure this
line is not commented out.
5. Run config.bat. If execution seems to stop while checking dvips, just
hit enter a time or two and it will resume.
I noticed from your log that l2h was successful in recognizing GS:
checking for gswin32c... C:\GS\GS7.04\BIN\gswin32c.exe
checking for ghostscript version... 7.04
Many people on Wintel (myself included) will instead get:
checking for gswin32c... no
Warning: Will not be able to generate images due to above failure.
...and similar errors for the netpbm utilitites because we choose not to
have all that stuff in our path. In case you didn't know, the prefs.pm mod
that takes care of this without having to put GS and netpbm in the path is:
$prefs{'EXTRAPATH'} = 'F:\\gs\\gs7.04\\bin;F:\\netpbm\\bin';
...your paths may vary according to where you installed GS and netpbm,
obviously.
6. If all's OK in config.log, run test.bat. See if your errors go away.
7. Look at test output with your browser and verify the mathematical
formulae display correctly.
8. Run install.bat. Consider placing the l2h\bin folder in your path, so
you can later run latex2html.bat from any directory. You may also wish to
keep that l2hinit file discussed earlier (for some reason it did not seem to
copy over to the install directory.) It doesn't really need to go there per
se, but you will probably want to keep a copy of it _somewhere_ before you
remove the expanded archive files that you ran the install from (which are
now safe to delete since it is already "installed" at the destination
folder.") Copies of l2hinit can be modified and placed accordingly to
facilitate different local configurations (e.g. unique to each project,
person, etc.) without having to all the time modify the l2hconf.pm, which
applies global settings _before_ parsing l2hinit.
Here is a useful document that you may or may not have looked at:
http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/l2h.htm
Darrell
>
>
> >
> > Similarly, the following is the segmented texts in pstoimg.bat after
running install.bat:
> >
> > .......
> > # Ghostscript
> > my $GS = 'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin\\gswin32c.exe';
> > my $GSDEVICE = 'pnmraw';
> > my $GSALIASDEVICE = 'ppmraw';
> > .......
>
> Looks good.
>
>
> > Search path:
> > . ; C:\gs\gs8.00\lib ; C:\gs\fonts ; c:/gs/gs8.00/lib ; c:/gs/fonts
> > For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.00/doc/Use.htm.
> > Report bugs to bug-gs@ghostscript.com, using the form in Bug-form.htm.
>
>
> > >> Converting image #2
> > >> pstoimg.bat: Error: Ghostscript returned error status 0
> > >> pstoimg.bat: Error: Couldn't find pnm output of
C:\ChinaTeX\Temp\l2h1624\image002.ps
>
> So it looks like Ghostscript got started, but it failed for some reason.
>
> Run your job again, using the -debug switch.
>
> Post the output to the terminal that results.
> Perhaps some of the extra messages will reveal something useful.
>
> This will also retain intermediate files, such as the .ps files,
> and show LaTeX messages as well.
> It may be that something is missing for LaTeX, resulting in one or more
> empty, or otherwise bad, images.
>
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Ross Moore
>
>
>
>
> > best regards,
> > Shujun LI
> >
> > >> Hi all,
> > >>
> > >> I download the latest version of latex2html from www.latex2htm.org,
but I encountered strange problem when I run test.bat after running
config.bat. The problem is: all images, including the ones generated to
display complex equations, cannot be displayed in the html pages. The report
is as follows:
> > >>
> > >> Converting image #2
> > >> pstoimg.bat: Error: Ghostscript returned error status 0
> > >> pstoimg.bat: Error: Couldn't find pnm output of
C:\ChinaTeX\Temp\l2h1624\image002.ps
> > >> Error: Cannot read 'img2.gif': No such file or directory
> > >>
> > >> Although it seems that I have not correctly installed Ghostscript, I
really installed the latest version (Ghostscript 8.00) and set
"$prefs{'EXTRAPATH'} = 'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin';" in prefs.pm before I ran
config.bat.
> > >
> > >Hmm; I've never seen Ghostscript 8.
> > >Can you please show me what message results from the following
commands:
> > > gs -v
> > > gs --help
> > > (just the first few lines, please)
> > >
> > >
> > >> If I omit the problem and continue to run install.bat, the problem
remains when I try to translate any .tex file to html documents.
> > >
> > >I'm guessing that the full path to Ghostscript was not found when you
installed
> > >LaTeX2HTML. There should be a message about this in the configure log.
> > >This means that some variables, name $GS and starting $GS... will have
empty
> > >values instead of full directory paths.
> > >You could try to find these and fix them, or wait until the installer
is patched
> > >to recognise this latest version of Ghostscript.
> > >
> > >
> > >Hope this helps,
> > >
> > > Ross Moore
> > >
> > >
> > >> Shujun Li
> > >> E-mail: hooklee@sina.com hooklee@mail.com
> > >> Institute of Image Processing
> > >> School of Electronics & Information Engineering
> > >> Xi'an Jiaotong University
> > >> Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, P. R. China
> > >> My home page: http://www.hooklee.com
> > >> Welcome to visit ChinaTeX: http://www.ctexer.net
> > >>
> > >>
> > >>
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