[l2h] Illegal seek in pstoimg

William T. Martin martin@orie.cornell.edu
Fri, 16 Aug 2002 06:15:22 -0400


I am getting an "illegal seek" error message in pstoimg.  According
to one post, there is a fix for this in the CVS latex2html distribution,
but I cannot find this.  Has anyone experienced this problem and found a
solution to it?

Thank you,

-- Bill Martin -- 

 pstoimg: Error:
"/usr/local/bin/pnmcrop <
/tmp/l2h22497/p22510.pnm |  
/usr/local/bin/ppmquant -floyd 256 | /usr/local/bin/ppmtogif -interlace
-trans '#ffffff'  > img1.gif" failed: Illegal se

latex2html -html_version 2.0 fall02.tex
Note: Loading /net/trout/export/home2/martin/.latex2html-init
Note: Initialising with file:
/net/trout/export/home2/martin/.latex2html-init
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002 (1.67)
by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.

Revised and extended by:
 Marcus Hennecke, Ross Moore, Herb Swan and others
...producing markup for HTML version 2.0  

 *** processing declarations ***

Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/versions/latin1.pl
OPENING /net/trout/export/home2/martin/public_html/work/fall02.tex 

Cannot create directory fall02/: File exists, reusing it.
Reusing directory fall02/:

Note: Working directory is
/net/trout/export/home2/martin/public_html/work/fall02
Note: Images will be generated in /tmp/l2h22497

texexpand V2002 (Revision 1.11)

Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/texdefs.perl...
Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/article.perl
Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/html.perl
Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/htmllist.perl
Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/color.perl
*** color is not supported with HTML version: 2.0 ***

Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/makeidx.perl
Loading /usr/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/epsfig.perl
Reading ...
%%%%%%++
@@@@@@@@@@@@

Translating ...
0/0:top of fall02: for fall02.html

 *** translating preamble ***
............
 *** preamble done ***
;...;..

Writing image file ...

This is TeX, Version 3.14159 (C version 6.1)
(images.tex
LaTeX2e <1996/12/01> patch level 1
Babel <v3.6h> and hyphenation patterns for american, german, loaded.


 *** processing 1 images ***

Generating postscript images using dvips ...
This is dvipsk 5.58f Copyright 1986, 1994 Radical Eye Software
' TeX output 2002.08.16:0537' -> /tmp/l2h22497/image
(-> /tmp/l2h22497/image001) <tex.pro><special.pro><color.pro>[1] 
(-> /tmp/l2h22497/image002) <tex.pro><special.pro><color.pro>[2] 
Converting image #1
pstoimg: Error: "/usr/local/bin/pnmcrop < /tmp/l2h22497/p22510.pnm |
/usr/local/bin/ppmquant -floyd 256 | /usr/local/bin/ppmtogif -interlace
-trans '#ffffff'  > img1.gif" failed: Illegal seek

Error while converting image

Doing section links ....
Done.

 45 % latex2html
-version Note: Loading /net/trout/export/home2/martin/.latex2html-init
Note: Initialising with file:
/net/trout/export/home2/martin/.latex2html-init
This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002 (1.67)
by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds.


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