Re: Getting Errors Using GIF option under Movie

Juergen Schoenwaelder (schoenw@ibr.cs.tu-bs.de)
Tue, 5 Dec 1995 01:15:29 +0100

Hi!

Joe Goldberg <jgoldber@BBN.COM> said:

Joe> I am relatively new to TKINED and I was fooling around with
Joe> the Movie option, trying to get a GIF image out. When I run
Joe> the GIF menu option I get the following error:

Joe> couldn't execute "pnmrotate": No such file or directory
Joe> while executing
Joe> "exec gs -dNOPAUSE -q -r64x64 -sDEVICE=pbmraw -sOutputFile=-
Joe> /tmp/tkined2140.ps quit.ps < /dev/null | pnmrotate -90 | ppmtogif >
Joe> /tmp/tkined2140.gif 2> ..."

Joe> This looks like I am missing the pnmrotate utility in my
Joe> Ghostscript (a truthful statement). I also do not have
Joe> ppmtogif.

Use archie to find the pbmplus package which contains the source of a
large set of small image conversion programs. There nothing wrong with
Ghostscript - just install pbmplus.

Juergen