[GRASS-dev] composer preview

[Michael Barton]

So that was easier to test than I thought. I had not reinstalled X11 on one of my computers since updating to OS X 10.8. Even with PIL installed, here is what happens:

1. When I click the preview button, I get the following screen.



If I click "continue" it takes me to the XQuartz project site to install XQuartz. If I click cancel, I get the following error: 



So this is a PIL/Ghostscript/X11 issue. Note that Ghostscript IS installed on my Mac by default.

After installing a XQuartz, the composer preview works. This is not a huge problem on the Mac then, but it seems like people should not need to install X11 solely for converting pdf2png. No other way?

Michael
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Arizona State University

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On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Anna Kratochvílová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
>> Anna,
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>> I am happy to test. But composer preview has worked for me in the past once I installed PIL. I do have Ghostscript. I installed it manually long ago, but I'm pretty sure that it comes with the Mac OS these days.
>> 
> 
> I thougt the preview was not working for you because of the ticket
> [1]. If it is working there is probably nothing to test.
> 
> Thanks anyway,
> Anna
> 
> 
> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1715
>> Michael
>> ____________________
>> C. Michael Barton
>> Director, Center for Social Dynamics & Complexity
>> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
>> Arizona State University
>> 
>> voice:  480-965-6262 (SHESC), 480-727-9746 (CSDC)
>> fax:          480-965-7671 (SHESC),  480-727-0709 (CSDC)
>> www: http://www.public.asu.edu/~cmbarton, http://csdc.asu.edu
>> 
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>> On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:11 AM, Anna Kratochvílová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi Michael,
>>> 
>>> could you do a test for me with the cartographic composer? The preview
>>> can be broken for several reasons [1]. Could you check that you have
>>> Ghostscript installed? Then, if you have it, try if it is on the PATH.
>>> If not, could you put it on the PATH? Then it could work on Mac. But
>>> there is probably no chance to make it work on Windows.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Anna
>>> 
>>> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1554#comment:5
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