[Xastir] PNG snapshot problem

[Chris Hare, KD5WIM]

Sorry folks....

one other piece of info - I have been using the toposerver as my map,
and PNG snapshots die.  So, I did some otehr testing

When I use 
terraserver.geo, it works fine
no map at all, it works fine
tigermaps, works just fine

So, there is something flaky for sure.


On Sat, 2003-10-11 at 21:19, Curt Mills, WE7U wrote:
> On 11 Oct 2003, Chris Hare, KD5WIM wrote:
> 
> > I just downloaded the October 10 snapshot and compiled it.  But I am
> > having the same problem as with the Oct 1 version.  When I run xastir
> > and turn on PNG snapshots, I get the following error when xastir aborts:
> 
> The error you showed was fairly generic X11 stuff, which doesn't tell
> us why Xastir died.
> 
> I suspect that your ImageMagick setup may be flawed.  I would try
> using the "convert" command from the command line to verify that you
> can convert from an XPM file to a PNG file, and also verify that an
> XPM snapshot file was created in the ~/.xastir/tmp directory.  If
> the file exists there, you've got an XPM format snapshot of the
> Xastir drawing area.
> 
> Another problem that you can have, which doesn't appear to kill
> Xastir, but nevertheless is a problem, is that the "convert" command
> will die when it tries to convert an XPM file, where the XPM file
> last line is not just
> 
> };
> 
> On some of my systems, those two characters get appended to the last
> image line instead, and then ImageMagick doesn't recognize it as a
> valid XPM file.  "xv" handles it just fine.  Adding a linefeed ahead
> of those characters makes ImageMagick happy as well.
> 
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