[GRASS-dev] composer preview

[Anna Kratochvílová]

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
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> 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:
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> 1. When I click the preview button, I get the following screen.
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> If I click "continue" it takes me to the XQuartz project site to install XQuartz. If I click cancel, I get the following error:
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> So this is a PIL/Ghostscript/X11 issue. Note that Ghostscript IS installed on my Mac by default.
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> 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?

I don't know how Ghostscript handles PostScript and why is X11 needed.
And I can't see any way to change it.

Anna

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> On Oct 25, 2012, at 1:13 PM, Anna Kratochvílová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
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> On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 6:49 PM, Michael Barton <Michael.Barton at asu.edu> wrote:
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> 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.
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> I thougt the preview was not working for you because of the ticket
> [1]. If it is working there is probably nothing to test.
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> Thanks anyway,
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> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1715
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> Professor of Anthropology, School of Human Evolution & Social Change
> Arizona State University
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> On Oct 25, 2012, at 12:11 AM, Anna Kratochvílová <kratochanna at gmail.com>
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> Hi Michael,
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> 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.
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> Thanks,
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> [1] http://trac.osgeo.org/grass/ticket/1554#comment:5
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