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

[Igor Peshansky]

AM,

ppmquant may have problems with line endings.  Try making /tmp a binary
mount (see "man mount").
	Igor

On Fri, 23 Mar 2007, Alle Meije Wink wrote:

> 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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