[Xastir] splat .geo files in xastir

[Dick Repasky]

I'm having difficulty getting splat .geo files to display correctly in
xastir.

If I use the -geo option to splat, I get a .geo file and a .ppm file.
The whole .ppm file displays as black. If I add a TRANSPARENT line to
the .geo file, the whole thing is transparent, and nothing shows up.

If I convert the splat .ppm file to a .png file with

  gm convert -transparent "#ffffff" myfile.ppm myfile.png


and then modify the .geo file to point to the .png file (no TRANSPARENT
entry in the .geo file), line of sight coverage displays in xastir, but
it is jet black rather than the multitude of colors that splat uses to
show coverage of the various transmitters and overlap in coverage. How
do I get xastir to retain the original colors?

I'm using xastir-1.9.5 compiled from source, and I've got most all image
types compiled in.

Built-in map types:
      gnis   USGS GNIS Datapoints
       map   APRSdos Maps
       map   WinAPRS/MacAPRS/X-APRS Maps
       pdb   PocketAPRS Maps

Support for these additional map types has been compiled in:
       geo   Image Map (ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library, many formats
allowed)
       geo   URL (Internet maps via libcurl library)
       shp   ESRI Shapefile Maps (Shapelib library)
       tif   USGS DRG Geotiff Topographic Maps (libgeotiff/libproj)
       tab   MapInfo TAB
       mid   MapInfo MID
       mif   MapInfo MIF
       ddf   Spatial Data Transfer Standard (SDTS)
       rt1   US Census Bureau TIGER/Line
       s57   International Hydrographic Organization (IHO) S-57
       dgn   MicroStation DGN


The box is Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy).

Thanks,

Dick, KC9JLU