Re: idt&ncgm_to_png

Dear Mary Haley,

I am very sorry to reply so late.
Thank you for your useful information.
I can get "cpex08.ps" (& "cpex08.png") which include characters!

However, I can't show the graphic using ictrans and idt yet.
I'm using the machine as follows,

Computing Servers: Sun Fire X4600
There are 8 AMD dual core Opteron processors．
Operating system: SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server 9
Compilers, Debugger, and Development Tool PGI Cluster Development Kit
（PGI CDK）

This is the error message.
reading stdout of translator. Illegal seek.
Translator aborted.

If you have any ideas about this problem, please let me know.

Thank you.

Ryoko Oda

Mary Haley wrote:
> Dear Ryoko Oda,
>
> It sounds like you built NCAR Graphics from source, but it may not
> have built "ictrans". As for your characters not appearing, this is
> probably because in a PS file, you are plotting on a white background,
> but the characters are still white.
>
> What I recommend is going straight to a PS file, rather than an NCGM
> and then a PS file. Try this:
>
> ncargex -W ps cpex08
>
> This should create a file "cpex08.ps" file that has the black
> background and white text.
>
> If you want to keep using an NCGM, then you can swap the black
> background and white foreground with this:
>
> ctrans -d ps.color cpex08.ncgm | pswhite > cpex08.ps
>
> This way you will be able to see the characters, and, you won't
> get that black box, which can be undesirable for output like
> white paper.
>
> --Mary
>
>
> On Sat, 13 Jan 2007, Ryoko ODA wrote:
>
>> Dear ncarg-talk:
>>
>> I'm sorry that my previous message (subject:idt&ncgm_to_png) body was
>> too big.
>> I remove the attachments, and I send this e-mail which include same
>> message.
>>
>> I have two questions (about idt and convert).
>> Recently, I installed the NCAR graphics version 4.4.1.
>> I want to display the graphic (cpex08.ncgm) .
>> However, I can't show the graphic using idt.
>> error message as below:
>>
>>>> reading stdout of translator: Illegal seek
>>>> Translator aborted
>>>
>>
>> If I use "ctrans", the graphic is displayed.
>>
>>>> ctrans -d X11 cpex08.ncgm
>>>
>>
>> What's gone wrong?
>>
>> Another question is "convert".
>> I want to convert ncgm to another format.
>> I tried to convet as below.
>>
>>>> ctrans -d ps.color cpex08.ncgm > cpex08.ps
>>>> convert cpex08.ps cpex08.png
>>>
>> I could get "cpex08.ps" and "cpex08.png", but these figures did't
>> include characters.
>>
>> What is the problem?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance.
>>
>> Ryoko Oda
>>
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>>
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Ryoko ODA
E-mail:oda.r.aa_at_m.titech.ac.jp