[Xastir] online terraserver maps black, too

[Dick Repasky]

Compiling against imagemagick did the trick.  Splat plots and
terraserver plots now work for me.

Thanks for your help!

Dick, KC9JLU

Ray Wells wrote:
> Tom Russo wrote:
>> On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 03:25:16PM -0400, we recorded a
>> bogon-computron collision of the <dick.repasky at gmail.com> flavor,
>> containing:
>>  
>>> I wrote earlier about having trouble with .geo files from splat. I
>>> decided to try some of the .geo files that are distributed with xastir.
>>>
>>> All the terraserver .geo files render as sheets of solid black. Online
>>> TIGER maps are fine as are WMSRadar.geo, TXRadar.geo and USRadar.geo.
>>>
>>> Do you think that this might have to do with compiling against
>>> graphicsmagick rather than imagemagick?
>>>     
>>
>> Yes.  The issue is a known one.  GraphicsMagick has a default value of
>> "QuantumDepth" that is not  working properly with Xastir.  If you can
>> reconfigure graphicsmagick with the right options you could fix it.
>> (I don't have them handy, but they'd be in the list archives because
>> this has come up several times in the last month or so.)
>>
>> If you can't rebuild GraphicsMagick, link against ImageMagick instead.
>>
>> Someone needs to go through the code in Xastir that depends on
>> QuantumDepth
>> being 16 and fix it so it works with other values.
>>
>>   
> I can confirm that splat produced ppm/geo works fine with Imagemagick, I
> just created one.
> 
> Ray vk2tv
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