I don't know if it's just my luck, but I don't think IM worked for Geo on it when I compiled xastir for centOS 5 about 4 months ago.
On Thursday, May 7, 2015, Tom Russo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:51:13AM -0600, we recorded a bogon-computron > collision of the <[email protected] <javascript:;>> flavor, > containing: > > Awesome!! That did it! graphicksmagick fixed the problem and the maps > are > > showing. > > Hooray! > > Chalk up another black mark on the IM side. > > Years ago the developers talked about actually removing the IM support in > Xastir and requiring GM instead. At that time, there were still Linux > distros that could not have both IM and GM installed simultaneously, and > some users needed IM as a dependency for other programs. So the discussion > ended there. > > Perhaps it's time to have that discussion again. IM is becoming a source > of > more problems with every release. Chasing down those incompatibilities was > a source of "ifdef bloat" for several years as we tried to keep compatible > with multiple versions of IM. And their latest releases all seem to > require > major changes in Xastir's raster rendering code to work --- and that > ain't going to happen given the availability of developer time (unless > we have some volunteers from the user community). > > > On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 8:43 AM, Tom Russo <[1][email protected] > <javascript:;>> wrote: > > > > On Thu, May 07, 2015 at 08:34:51AM -0600, we recorded a > bogon-computron > > collision of the <[2][email protected] <javascript:;>> > flavor, containing: > > >** ** Osm_tiled_mapnik loads and it shows that it downloads the > tiles > > on the > > >** ** bottom left, but I don't see anything on the screen other > than > > worldhi. Is > > >** ** there a specific location/zoom that I need to go to? I > zoomed in > > a lot > > >** ** too, and there is no difference, worldhi is the only imagery > that > > I see. > > > > I'm guessing that you also got the "colorspace != RGB" error on the > > console > > even on this map. > > > > I suspect you have a problem with your ImageMagick install.** See my > > last > > email about that. > > > > The solution to this *might* be to rebuild ImageMagick with > different > > options, > > but I don't know what those would be.** A better solution would be > to > > install > > GraphicsMagick instead. > > > > GraphicsMagick is a fork of ImageMagick that puts stability of API > very > > much > > higher on the priority list than ImageMagick does --- IM tends to > break > > things > > randomly and without any regard to backwards compatibility.** They > are > > more > > bleeding edge as far as image processing algorithms and design, but > for > > our purposes stability is more valuable. > > -- > > Tom Russo** ** KM5VY** **SAR502** **DM64ux** ** ** ** ** > > [3]http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > > Tijeras, NM** QRPL#1592 K2#398** SOC#236** ** ** ** > > [4]http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > > **echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] > > [n-z][a-m] > > > > -- > > Skyler Fennell > > [5]amsatnet.info > > KD**WHB > > [6][email protected] <javascript:;> > > > > References > > > > Visible links > > 1. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > 2. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > 3. http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > > 4. http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > > 5. http://amsatnet.info/ > > 6. mailto:[email protected] <javascript:;> > > -- > Tom Russo KM5VY SAR502 DM64ux http://www.swcp.com/~russo/ > Tijeras, NM QRPL#1592 K2#398 SOC#236 > http://kevan.org/brain.cgi?DDTNM > echo "prpv_a'rfg_cnf_har_cvcr" | sed -e 's/_/ /g' | tr [a-m][n-z] > [n-z][a-m] > > > > > -- Skyler Fennell amsatnet.info KDØWHB [email protected] _______________________________________________ Xastir mailing list [email protected] http://xastir.org/mailman/listinfo/xastir
