[l2h] pstoimg on cygwin? II - same .eps but monochrome

Alle Meije Wink alle_meije at yahoo.co.uk
Fri Mar 23 12:10:58 CET 2007


If I change the gnuplot options to
> set size 2.2,1.1
> set terminal postscript enhanced eps "Helvetica" 28
> set output "IAN_PER3rawrotation.eps"
> set border 15 lw 2
> set key bottom left 

pstoimg finishes correctly -and the png looks fine.

Unfortunately, it's the coloured version that I need...

AM

Alle Meije Wink wrote:
> Hi-
> 
> I have installed latex2html on cygwin -after installing netpbm and perl 
> (which was on there from the beginning) and following the instructions 
> at [http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~suvrit/work/l2h.html]. Everything worked 
> in one go, no complaints.
> 
> Then I tried pstoimg on a black-and-white .eps file, got a png file 
> exactly as expected.
> 
> Then pstoimg on a color .eps file (made with gnuplot), and I got this 
> error:
>> $ pstoimg IAN_PER3rawrotation.eps pstoimg V2002-2-1 (Revision 1.16, 
>> Perl 5.008007)
>> pstoimg: Processing IAN_PER3rawrotation.eps
>> pstoimg: Error: "/usr/bin/ppmquant 256 < /tmp/p612.pnm | 
>> /usr/bin/pnmtopng  > IAN_PER3rawrotation.png" failed: 
> 
> It doesn't say why, but when I run the command between quotes I get:
>> $ /usr/bin/ppmquant 256 < /tmp/p612.pnm | /usr/bin/pnmtopng  > 
>> IAN_PER3rawrotation.png
>> pnmcolormap: making histogram...
>> pnmcolormap: Scanning image 0
>> pnmcolormap: 7 colors so far
>> pnmcolormap: Scanning image 1
>> pnmcolormap: Image 1 depth (1) is not the same as Image 0 (3)
>> pnmcolormap failed, rc=256
>> pnmtopng: Error reading magic number from Netpbm image stream.  Most 
>> often, this means your input file is empty.
> 
> All I know at this point is that ppmquant, or rather, a call inside 
> ppmquant to pnmcolormap, goes wrong in cygwin.
> Does anyone else know of this problem, and has anyone found a workaround 
> yet?
> 
> If it helps, the gnuplot file that I use has these output options:
>> set size 2.2,1.1
>> set terminal postscript eps enhanced color "Helvetica" 28
>> set output "IAN_PER3rawrotation.eps"
>> set border 15 lw 2
>> set key bottom left
> [clip]
> 
> Maybe one of these options (`enhanced') screws up pstoimg?
> 
> Just to make sure:
> Running the same commands in Linux results in a beautiful PNG file! 
> Also, the EPS and PNM files in cygwin look completely fine. See
> http://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/~amw71/IAN_PER3rawrotation.eps
> http://www.wbic.cam.ac.uk/~amw71/p612.pnm
> 
> Many thanks for all your suggestions.
> 
> Best wishes
> Alle Meije Wink
> 



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