[magick-users] problem converting a postscript

[zentara]

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 09:23:56 -0800 (PST)
jkpt <jennifer at ices.utexas.edu> wrote:

>
>I'm having difficulty converting a postscript image to anything else
>(preferably a jpg) via the 'convert' command.  I used to be able to do this
>without problem until some things related to my OS changed.  Now the same
>process no longer works, and I'm not sure why.  Here is the error I receive:
>
>$ convert -verbose -colorspace rgb Alicia.i30001.ps Alicia.i30001.jpg
>"gs" -q -dQUIET -dPARANOIDSAFER -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dNOPROMPT
>-dMaxBitmap=500000000 -dAlignToPixels=0 -dGridFitTT=0 "-sDEVICE=pngalpha"
>-dTextAlphaBits=4 -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 "-r72x72" -g612x792 
>"-sOutputFile=/tmp/magick-XXl8RlHg" "-f/tmp/magick-XXmjNQsI"
>"-f/tmp/magick-XXl5Msea"
>
>I *swear* the file is in the directory I am trying to execute the command. 
>I can view the file via GS okay.  I've also tried just 'convert
>Alicia.i30001.ps Alicia.i30001.jpg' to no avail.  Can you help?

Hi, it works here for me, it takes a few minutes for it to process though,
maybe you were impatient?
What I saw was your gs verbose message repeated twice. It appeared first,
then a few minutes later a new gs string appeared, then a few minutes later,
it was done.


To be honest, I did modify your ps file, and it may be why it worked for me.
I noticed that when opening it in 'gv' it never finished loading.... I had the 
hourglass cursor forever.
So I opened the file (I used joe), and added %%EOF at the end, then it worked
in the convert command. To test the theory, I then removed the %%EOF and ran it
again.... and it still worked.  
So I'm guessing your original file, may not have been properly terminated with
a Control-D, or whatever?  And the joe editor fixed the problem?

Or maybe your OS changes are preventing that big of a file to be loaded?

Just a guess, I don't feel like downloading it again. :-)

zentara










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