On Sep 26, 2014, at 13:29, Ethan A Merritt <merr...@u.washington.edu> wrote:
> On Tuesday, 23 September, 2014 14:09:08 Paul Emsley wrote: >> We are pleased to announce the release of Coot 0.8. New binaries should >> be on their way shortly: >> >> http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/source/releases/ >> http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/Personal/pemsley/coot/binaries/release/ >> >> o FEATURE: labels and on-screen text can now be rendered with stroke >> characters instead of bitmaps >> (set-use-stroke-characters 1) >> set_use_stroke_characters(1) > > Great news! This fixes the "Coot slow on Intel HD4000 graphics" problem. > > Now the only problem is that your binary packages use a libpng version > that is not compatible with the *.png icons supplied by my system. > So I get a screenful of warnings on startup and all the icons show up blank. > > It's not your fault that libpng can't seem to get its act together and provide > back/forward compatibility, but the problem could be worked around by > including compatible icons in the binary package rather than referring to > system-supplied icons that are version-dependent. This could be due to the "minor zlib-header breakage caused by libpng 1.2.6”. If so, running the icons through png-fix-IDAT-windowsize [http://www.libpng.org/pub/png/apps/pngcheck.html] might help. // Johan Research Specialist @ Gonen Lab ____________________________________________________ Janelia Farm Research Campus * 19700 Helix Drive Ashburn, VA 20147 * +1 (571) 209-4000 extension 3376
