[l2h] Problem with pstoimg

[Philip G. Ratcliffe]

> I've just installed Perl, Netpbm (version 10.18.4) and latex2html on my
> windows 98. The configuration worked fine but when the pstoimg script
> attempts to convert ps images, which are correctly generated, I have the
> following error message:
> 
> Debug (syswait): Running "C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe
> C:\latex2html\bin\pstoimg.bat -ty
> pe gif -debug -tmp c:\windows\TEMP\l2h3381251 -discard -interlace
> -antialias -de
> pth 1 -scale 1.6 -geometry 9x23 -margins 134,72 -crop abls -transparent
> -out img
> 3.gif c:\windows\TEMP\l2h3381251\image003.ps"
> Global symbol "$PNMFILE" requires explicit package name at
> C:\latex2html\bin\pst
> oimg.bat line 1300.
> Execution of C:\latex2html\bin\pstoimg.bat aborted due to compilation
> errors.

Here's a previous posting of mine from February:

My OS: Windows 2000 Professional SP4

MiKTeX:       absolutely up-to-date as of now
GhostScript:  v8.13
Perl:         v5.8.0
netpbm:       v10.18.4

LaTe2html:    v2002-2-1

Bug 1

The configuration appears to want pnmfile.exe whereas the above version of
netpbm contains pnmfile (the same holds for certain other files).

Workaround: copy pnmfile to pnmfile.exe


Bug 2

Image file creation fails with

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Generating postscript images using dvips ...
C:\TeX\texmf\miktex\bin\dvips -S1 -i  -Ppdf  -E -E -oC:\TEMP\l2h1692\image
.\images.dvi

 *** updating image cache

 *** removing unnecessary images ***

extracting tex2html_wrap_inline4 as 1#1
Converting image #1

IMAGE: tex2html_wrap_inline4
pstoimg.bat: Error: "C:\Programs\GnuWin32\bin\pnmtopng -interlace -trans
gray85 < C:\TEMP\l2h1692\p672.pnm > img1.png" failed:

Error while converting image
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Workaround: remove line 1264 in pstoimg.bat (I've no idea why though)

      $trans_color = $TRANSPARENT_COLOR||'gray85';

Cheers,  Philip G. Ratcliffe