Re: Re: [l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
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From: Ross Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Subject: Re: Re: [l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
Dear Ross Moore,
Thanks for your help. Stragely, it seems that config.bat have
successfully find AFPL Ghostscript 8.00. The following is the segmented
texts in config.log after running config.bat:
...
checking for gswin32c... C:\gs\gs8.00\bin\gswin32c.exe
checking for ghostscript version... 8.00
...
Hmm.
So it looks like it found that OK -- which is good.
That leaves me mystified about what else might be the problem.
This looks like that same ol' problem with L2H on Windows that is mentioned
here from time to time, the cause of which (AFAIK) has never been identified
or resolved. At first, I had the same problem but I did something (?) and
have not experienced it since, but I have subsequently replaced my drive and
did a clean install w/ no problems. All I can offer is what I know to be a
successful installation on an NT box (copied from an email to someone else
some time ago.) Note particularly suggestion 4 and the rmarks that follow
regarding netpbm. IIRC, one or the other (or both) is what cured the
problem for me, and I was getting the exact errors you were.
1. Don't use the same temp folder as the operating system does. Make a new
temp folder, \l2htemp or somesuch, for l2h's exclusive use. Modify
prefs.pm accordingly. I am using drive F:
$prefs{'TMPSPACE'} = 'F:\\l2htemp';
2. Also in prefs.pm, make the target directory name l2h. From your log, it
appears you have already made this mod:
$prefs{'PREFIX'} = 'F:\\l2h';
3. Find the local initialization file, dot.latex2html-init. It's in the
same folder as prefs.pm. If left alone, this will definitely be a problem
(if not now it will be later, so fix it now.) The dot is a result of NT's
inability to correctly parse the filename during decompressing of the
archive. L2h thinks this file is named .latex2html-init (with leading
period instead of dot). I am assuming that 9x will similarly parse this
filename
incorrectly, but even if it is correct you want to rename it. Leading
periods in filenames can sometines wreak havoc with DOS command
interpreters. Rename it to something command.com can properly dealt with,
e.g. l2hinit is what I use. It is
necessary to inform l2h of the change, obviously. Before running
config.bat, modify the l2hconf.pin file, which during execution of
config.bat is built to l2hconf.pm. This is the global config file for l2h.
# Local initialization files are usually named .latex2html-init
# this name is hard-coded as the default with the latex2html script
# It can be changed here, if desired:
#
# $INIT_FILE_NAME = '.latex2html-init';
Do not just uncomment and change this last line from '.latex2html-init' to
'l2hinit'. That won't work. Instead, just leave that line commented and
add this new line:
$INIT_FILE_NAME = $ENV{'L2HINIT_NAME'} || 'l2hinit';
***Ross---For the benefit of windows users, it would be great if you could
have the install take care of this automatically if a windows OS is present
(and the renaming of the init file to match, too).
4. Change the default image type from png to gif. Not really necessary,
but recommended since many browsers do not correctly render transparent
png's. Although it may appear that l2h is not correctly rendering a
transparent png, it is actually the web browser that is the culprit.
***Also I have noticed with some versions of netpbm, the test.bat will error
out when trying to convert images. It will simply say Error converting
image or somesuch, or in my case being on NT, in addition to that error I
will get an NT error about a procedure entry point png_get_header_ver could
not be located. This NT message does not appear on 9x, AFAIK, only the
errors regarding the generation of images. I did not have this problem with
previous versions of netpbm, so if png's are desirable one may wish to try
downgrading the netpbm utilities. Several older versions should be
available at Sourceforge.
Otherwise, if you wish to use gif's instead, as most do I suppose, make this
mod either in l2hconf.pin (before running config.bat) or directly to
l2hconf.pm (after running config.bat):
@IMAGE_TYPES = qw(gif png);
The default has the order reversed, i.e. qw(png gif). Also be sure this
line is not commented out.
5. Run config.bat. If execution seems to stop while checking dvips, just
hit enter a time or two and it will resume.
I noticed from your log that l2h was successful in recognizing GS:
checking for gswin32c... C:\GS\GS7.04\BIN\gswin32c.exe
checking for ghostscript version... 7.04
Many people on Wintel (myself included) will instead get:
checking for gswin32c... no
Warning: Will not be able to generate images due to above failure.
...and similar errors for the netpbm utilitites because we choose not to
have all that stuff in our
Re: Re: [l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
I would be very interested in the results of applying Darrell's comprehensive instructions, because if they solve this longstanding problem, then, with Darrell's permission, I would like to add them to http://www.mayer.dial.pipex.com/l2h.htm. I know there are a lot of frustrated users trying to get Latex2html to work on Windows and this could be what they are looking for. Steve Mayer ___ latex2html mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tug.org/mailman/listinfo/latex2html
[l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
Hi all,
I download the latest version of latex2html from www.latex2htm.org, but I encountered
strange problem when I run test.bat after running config.bat. The problem is: all
images, including the ones generated to display complex equations, cannot be displayed
in the html pages. The report is as follows:
Converting image #2
pstoimg.bat: Error: Ghostscript returned error status 0
pstoimg.bat: Error: Couldn't find pnm output of C:\ChinaTeX\Temp\l2h1624\image002.ps
Error: Cannot read 'img2.gif': No such file or directory
Although it seems that I have not correctly installed Ghostscript, I really installed
the latest version (Ghostscript 8.00) and set $prefs{'EXTRAPATH'} =
'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin'; in prefs.pm before I ran config.bat.
If I omit the problem and continue to run install.bat, the problem remains when I try
to translate any .tex file to html documents.
Shujun Li
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institute of Image Processing
School of Electronics Information Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, P. R. China
My home page: http://www.hooklee.com
Welcome to visit ChinaTeX: http://www.ctexer.net
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Re: [l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
Hi all,
I download the latest version of latex2html from www.latex2htm.org, but I
encountered strange problem when I run test.bat after running config.bat. The problem
is: all images, including the ones generated to display complex equations, cannot be
displayed in the html pages. The report is as follows:
Converting image #2
pstoimg.bat: Error: Ghostscript returned error status 0
pstoimg.bat: Error: Couldn't find pnm output of C:\ChinaTeX\Temp\l2h1624\image002.ps
Error: Cannot read 'img2.gif': No such file or directory
Although it seems that I have not correctly installed Ghostscript, I really
installed the latest version (Ghostscript 8.00) and set $prefs{'EXTRAPATH'} =
'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin'; in prefs.pm before I ran config.bat.
Hmm; I've never seen Ghostscript 8.
Can you please show me what message results from the following commands:
gs -v
gs --help
(just the first few lines, please)
If I omit the problem and continue to run install.bat, the problem remains when I
try to translate any .tex file to html documents.
I'm guessing that the full path to Ghostscript was not found when you installed
LaTeX2HTML. There should be a message about this in the configure log.
This means that some variables, name $GS and starting $GS... will have empty
values instead of full directory paths.
You could try to find these and fix them, or wait until the installer is patched
to recognise this latest version of Ghostscript.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
Shujun Li
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institute of Image Processing
School of Electronics Information Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, P. R. China
My home page: http://www.hooklee.com
Welcome to visit ChinaTeX: http://www.ctexer.net
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Re: Re: [l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
Dear Ross Moore,
Thanks for your help. Stragely, it seems that config.bat have successfully find AFPL
Ghostscript 8.00. The following is the segmented texts in config.log after running
config.bat:
...
checking for gswin32c... C:\gs\gs8.00\bin\gswin32c.exe
checking for ghostscript version... 8.00
...
Similarly, the following is the segmented texts in pstoimg.bat after running
install.bat:
...
# Ghostscript
my $GS = 'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin\\gswin32c.exe';
my $GSDEVICE = 'pnmraw';
my $GSALIASDEVICE = 'ppmraw';
...
PS:
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 is the latest version of AFPL Ghostscript, which can be
downloaded at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/doc/AFPL/get800.htm. I installed the
win32 version of AFPL Ghostscript 8.00, and the right command corresponding to gs is
gswin32c. The followings are the display of gswin32c -v and gswin32c --help:
C:\gswin32c -v:
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 (2002-11-21)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
C:\gswin32c --help:
AFPL Ghostscript 8.00 (2002-11-21)
Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
Usage: gs [switches] [file1.ps file2.ps ...]
Most frequently used switches: (you can use # in place of =)
-dNOPAUSE no pause after page | -q `quiet', fewer messages
-gwidthxheight page size in pixels | -rres pixels/inch resolution
-sDEVICE=devname select device | -dBATCH exit after last file
-sOutputFile=file select output file: - for stdout, |command for pipe,
embed %d or %ld for page #
Input formats: PostScript PostScriptLevel1 PostScriptLevel2 PostScriptLevel3 PDF
Available devices:
display mswindll mswinpr2 epson eps9high eps9mid epsonc ibmpro deskjet
djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550
uniprint djet500c declj250 lj250 st800 stcolor bj10e bj200 t4693d2
t4693d4 t4693d8 tek4696 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256 pcx24b pcxcmyk pbm
pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pkmraw tiffcrle tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4
tifflzw tiffpack bmpmono bmpgray bmp16 bmp256 bmp16m tiff12nc tiff24nc
psmono bit bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m jpeg
jpeggray pdfwrite pswrite epswrite pxlmono pxlcolor bbox ljet3 ljet3d
ljet4 ljet4d pj pjxl pjxl300 jetp3852 r4081 lbp8 m8510 necp6 bjc600
bjc800 pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw spotrgb spotcmyk devicen bmpsep1 bmpsep8
bmp32b psdcmyk psdrgb nullpage
Search path:
. ; C:\gs\gs8.00\lib ; C:\gs\fonts ; c:/gs/gs8.00/lib ; c:/gs/fonts
For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.00/doc/Use.htm.
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED], using the form in Bug-form.htm.
best regards,
Shujun LI
Hi all,
I download the latest version of latex2html from www.latex2htm.org, but I
encountered strange problem when I run test.bat after running config.bat. The problem
is: all images, including the ones generated to display complex equations, cannot be
displayed in the html pages. The report is as follows:
Converting image #2
pstoimg.bat: Error: Ghostscript returned error status 0
pstoimg.bat: Error: Couldn't find pnm output of C:\ChinaTeX\Temp\l2h1624\image002.ps
Error: Cannot read 'img2.gif': No such file or directory
Although it seems that I have not correctly installed Ghostscript, I really
installed the latest version (Ghostscript 8.00) and set $prefs{'EXTRAPATH'} =
'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin'; in prefs.pm before I ran config.bat.
Hmm; I've never seen Ghostscript 8.
Can you please show me what message results from the following commands:
gs -v
gs --help
(just the first few lines, please)
If I omit the problem and continue to run install.bat, the problem remains when I
try to translate any .tex file to html documents.
I'm guessing that the full path to Ghostscript was not found when you installed
LaTeX2HTML. There should be a message about this in the configure log.
This means that some variables, name $GS and starting $GS... will have empty
values instead of full directory paths.
You could try to find these and fix them, or wait until the installer is patched
to recognise this latest version of Ghostscript.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
Shujun Li
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institute of Image Processing
School of Electronics Information Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, P. R. China
My home page: http://www.hooklee.com
Welcome to visit ChinaTeX: http://www.ctexer.net
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Re: Re: [l2h] Why images cannot be generated?
Dear Ross Moore,
Thanks for your help. Stragely, it seems that config.bat have successfully find AFPL
Ghostscript 8.00. The following is the segmented texts in config.log after running
config.bat:
...
checking for gswin32c... C:\gs\gs8.00\bin\gswin32c.exe
checking for ghostscript version... 8.00
...
Hmm.
So it looks like it found that OK -- which is good.
That leaves me mystified about what else might be the problem.
Similarly, the following is the segmented texts in pstoimg.bat after running
install.bat:
...
# Ghostscript
my $GS = 'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin\\gswin32c.exe';
my $GSDEVICE = 'pnmraw';
my $GSALIASDEVICE = 'ppmraw';
...
Looks good.
Search path:
. ; C:\gs\gs8.00\lib ; C:\gs\fonts ; c:/gs/gs8.00/lib ; c:/gs/fonts
For more information, see c:/gs/gs8.00/doc/Use.htm.
Report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED], using the form in Bug-form.htm.
Converting image #2
pstoimg.bat: Error: Ghostscript returned error status 0
pstoimg.bat: Error: Couldn't find pnm output of
C:\ChinaTeX\Temp\l2h1624\image002.ps
So it looks like Ghostscript got started, but it failed for some reason.
Run your job again, using the -debug switch.
Post the output to the terminal that results.
Perhaps some of the extra messages will reveal something useful.
This will also retain intermediate files, such as the .ps files,
and show LaTeX messages as well.
It may be that something is missing for LaTeX, resulting in one or more
empty, or otherwise bad, images.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
best regards,
Shujun LI
Hi all,
I download the latest version of latex2html from www.latex2htm.org, but I
encountered strange problem when I run test.bat after running config.bat. The problem
is: all images, including the ones generated to display complex equations, cannot be
displayed in the html pages. The report is as follows:
Converting image #2
pstoimg.bat: Error: Ghostscript returned error status 0
pstoimg.bat: Error: Couldn't find pnm output of
C:\ChinaTeX\Temp\l2h1624\image002.ps
Error: Cannot read 'img2.gif': No such file or directory
Although it seems that I have not correctly installed Ghostscript, I really
installed the latest version (Ghostscript 8.00) and set $prefs{'EXTRAPATH'} =
'C:\\gs\\gs8.00\\bin'; in prefs.pm before I ran config.bat.
Hmm; I've never seen Ghostscript 8.
Can you please show me what message results from the following commands:
gs -v
gs --help
(just the first few lines, please)
If I omit the problem and continue to run install.bat, the problem remains when I
try to translate any .tex file to html documents.
I'm guessing that the full path to Ghostscript was not found when you installed
LaTeX2HTML. There should be a message about this in the configure log.
This means that some variables, name $GS and starting $GS... will have empty
values instead of full directory paths.
You could try to find these and fix them, or wait until the installer is patched
to recognise this latest version of Ghostscript.
Hope this helps,
Ross Moore
Shujun Li
E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Institute of Image Processing
School of Electronics Information Engineering
Xi'an Jiaotong University
Xi'an, Shaanxi 710049, P. R. China
My home page: http://www.hooklee.com
Welcome to visit ChinaTeX: http://www.ctexer.net
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