Hi,
On Fri, Jul 18, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Dave Roberts < [email protected]> wrote: > Friends, > > I'm using GRASS 70-svn on Arch linux to generate figures for a report. > The general process is > > 1) GRASS - d.out.file format=png > 2) xfig - import the PNG file, annotate, and export as PDF > 3) TeX - import the file in a dvipdfm \special > > However, I'm now having problems with non-functional PNG files from > d.out.file. Just below is a paste from my console. You can't see the > error from inside xfig, but the line just below "xfig" is the stderr output > from attempting to import demo_png.png. > > *********************************************************************** > GRASS 7.0.svn > d.out.file out=demo_png.png format=png size=800,600 > > Mapset <final> in Location <beartooth> > GRASS 7.0.svn > xfig > Warning: translation table syntax error: Missing '(' while parsing action > sequence > 'arning: ... found while parsing ':~Ctrl<Key>1: insert-string(1) > Warning: String to TranslationTable conversion encountered errors > libpng error: invalid file gamma in png_set_gamma > *********************************************************************** > > The resulting PNG file will import into Imagemagick OK, and can then be > exported back out as a PNG file which xfig will accept, so there is a work > around, but maybe this is easily fixed? I've had a look at Anna's python > script but haven't gone into the imported modules. > I have never had any problems with exported images from GRASS. d.out.file uses the same mechanism as when you use the toolbar button in map display. I tried to get the png into xfig and it didn't complain (xfig version 3.2.5b). Any other image processing tools have problems (e.g. gimp)? Anna > > Thanks, Dave > -- > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > David W. Roberts office 406-994-4548 > Professor and Head FAX 406-994-3190 > Department of Ecology email [email protected] > Montana State University > Bozeman, MT 59717-3460 > _______________________________________________ > grass-user mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.osgeo.org/mailman/listinfo/grass-user >
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