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[ILUG] png/pov-ray problems

[ILUG] png/pov-ray problems

Gordon McCormick gordon-ilug at esatclear.ie
Fri Jun 2 15:13:32 IST 2000


On Fri, Jun 02, 2000 at 11:22:31AM +0100, Gordon McCormick wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been messing about with povray (v3.1g) on Redhat 6.2 - after failing to
> find a tga to gif converter that worked properly I tried just outputting to
> a .png file. When I go to look at it on Netscape (4.7) it displays correctly
> [mostly, sometimes there's some blank stuff at the bottom] - on IE it displays
> as it's loading up then goes blank once it's finished. And the GIMP wont open
> it saying there are too many IDAT's.
> 
> Is this a pov-ray problem or am I missing something obvious?

In the wonderful tradition of answering me own message, I was missing
something obvious, I think. I ran povray with -t to make a targa and 
imagemaker managed to read them, although it couldn't read a png created
by povray. Either way I can now convert to jpg and the world is a better
place.

gordon




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