Wow, this is an odd set of problems. > 1.) PIL doesn't natively support 8bpp in python-imaging version > 1.1.3 from Debian Unstable. This was tested using python-2.1.3 > and python-2.2.1.
Which version of PIL? The quantization capabilities necessary for 8 bit support have finally made it into the lastest version of PIL, which probably isn't widely deployed yet. > 4.) Changing the image parser to imagemagick still tries to find and > use ppmtoTbmp, but of course that doesn't exist anymore.. and it > won't do 8bpp or 16bpp anyway in the "standard" packaged > version without patching. Actually, I just started working yesterday on converting the ImageMagick support to the newer object-based architecture, since the latest versions (5.4.4 or later) can write Palm image format directly (thanks to Chris!). Looks pretty easy, I hope to have it finished today. I'm still using the 1.1.13 viewer with the latest parser, and I don't see any of the URL problems any more. I'll update to the latest beta and see what it looks like. Bill
