[gradsusr] gxprint not making PNG images

[James T. Potemra]

Thanks Jennifer, it works fine now.

Jim

On 1/3/14 12:43 PM, Jennifer Adams wrote:
> Hi, Jim --
> I was able to reproduce this error. Not sure why it was happening, but 
> I tweaked the supplib configurations a bit by updating the cairo 
> version from 1.10 to 1.12 and gxprint is able to write out PNG files 
> now. I don't do much testing on the older laptop so this problem 
> escaped my notice.
>
> I have just replaced the tarball on our FTP server:
> ftp://cola.gmu.edu/grads/2.1/grads-2.1.a1-bin-darwin9.8.tar.gz
> --Jennifer
>
>
>
> On Jan 3, 2014, at 3:40 PM, James T. Potemra wrote:
>
>>
>> I'm using GrADS 2.1.a1 on a Mac (OS-10.6.8).  The print command 
>> gxprint seems to work fine for
>> .ps, .eps and .pdf extensions, but when I try to make a .png file I 
>> get a file of zero size.  For example,
>>
>> 'sdfopen 
>> http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov:9090/dods/gfs_2p5/gfs_2p520131205/gfs2p5_00z'
>> 'd tmp2m'
>> 'gxprint test.png x1024 y768'
>>
>> gives a file called test.png of size zero.  Replacing test.png with 
>> test.ps, test.eps or test.pdf all
>> give proper files.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for any ideas,
>>
>> Jim
>>
>> Here's my config info:
>>
>> Config: v2.1.a1 little-endian readline grib2 netcdf hdf4-sds hdf5 
>> opendap-grids,stn geotiff shapefile cairo
>> Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) Version 2.1.a1
>> Copyright (c) 1988-2013 by the Institute for Global Environment and 
>> Society (IGES)
>> This program is distributed WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY
>> See file COPYRIGHT for more information.
>>
>> Built Wed Dec 18 20:25:52 EST 2013 for i386-apple-darwin9.8.0
>>
>> This version of GrADS has been configured with the following options:
>>   o Built on a LITTLE ENDIAN machine
>>   o Athena Widget GUI DISABLED
>>   o Command line editing ENABLED
>> http://tiswww.case.edu/php/chet/readline/rltop.html
>>   o GRIB2 interface ENABLED
>> http://www.ijg.org
>> http://www.ece.uvic.ca/~mdadams/jasper
>> http://www.nco.ncep.noaa.gov/pmb/codes/GRIB2
>>       g2clib-1.4.0
>>   o NetCDF interface ENABLED
>> http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/software/netcdf
>>       netcdf 4.1.2 of Oct  4 2011 13:26:28 $
>>   o OPeNDAP gridded data interface ENABLED
>>   o OPeNDAP station data interface ENABLED
>> http://iges.org/grads/gadoc/supplibs.html
>>       libgadap 2.0
>>   o HDF4 and HDF5 interfaces ENABLED
>> http://hdfgroup.org
>>       HDF 4.2r6
>>       HDF5 1.8.7
>>   o GeoTIFF and KML/TIFF output ENABLED
>> http://www.libtiff.org
>> http://geotiff.osgeo.org
>>   o KML contour output ENABLED
>>   o Shapefile interface ENABLED
>> http://shapelib.maptools.org
>>   o Cairo graphics interface ENABLED
>> http://cairographics.org
>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/pixman
>> http://www.freetype.org/index2.html
>> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/fontconfig
>>       Cairo 1.10.0
>>       Pixman 0.21.2
>>       Freetype 2.4.3
>>       Fontconfig 2.8.0
>>
>> For additional information please consult http://iges.org/grads
>>
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> Jennifer M. Adams
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