[OZAPRS] Xastir maps... again

[Andrew Rich]

So where in the perl process does it need imagemagick ?


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Andrew Rich
Amateur radio callsign VK4TEC
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-----Original Message-----
From: Norm, VK3XCI [mailto:vk3xci at aanet.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 6 February 2007 5:37 PM
To: VK / ZL APRS Users; Xastir List
Subject: Re: [OZAPRS] Xastir maps... again


Yep,

That'll be it then

No ImageMagick. Installed and now all is well. I'll RTFM a little more
carefully next time.

Did a quick locate for ImageMagick and got a couple of hits so assumed
it was installe

Makes an ASS out of U and Me!!!

Thank you Marcus B


Marcus B wrote:
> It doesn't look like this has been solved, and I had this exact
> problem the other day.
>
> I solved it by installing the ImageMagick package as the script
> requires the "identify" program (I'm glad I know perl).
>
> Very silly error for a required program being missing, oh well :-/
>
> If you have ImageMagick installed, try running the identify program by
> itself, you should get something like this:
>
> [13:20:00 pts/7] mabs at whitestar:~/tmp/xastir$ identify
> Version: ImageMagick 6.2.4 12/13/06 Q16 http://www.imagemagick.org
> Copyright: Copyright (C) 1999-2005 ImageMagick Studio LLC
>
> Usage: identify [options ...] file [ [options ...] file ... ]
>
> ..........
>
> On 04/02/07, Norm, VK3XCI <vk3xci at aanet.com.au> wrote:
>> g'day all'
>>
>> It's VERY hot here and maybe my brain has boiled, but I can't seem to
>> get the inf to geo script to work to change a UI-view *.inf file to a
>> *.geo file
>>
>> It exits with an error
>>
>>> root at norm-linux:/usr/share/xastir/maps/Local#
/usr//lib/xastir/inf2geo.pl mildura-ne250.inf
>>> *** mildura-ne250.inf ***
>>> Image file not found for mildura-ne250, maybe be a case problem
>>> root at norm-linux:/usr/share/xastir/maps/Local#
>>
>> Now, I know the mildura-ne250.gif file is there. I have tried both
upper
>> and lower case iterations. The script seems to dump at the
FindImageFile
>> subroutine
>>
>>> sub findImageFile {
>>>     $filename = shift;
>>>     @extensions = ("gif", "bmp", "jpg", "png", "emf");
>>>     foreach $xtn (@extensions) {
>>>       $try_filename = "$filename.$xtn";
>>> #     print "Looking for $try_filename\n";
>>>       $string = `identify -ping $try_filename 2>/dev/null`;
>>>       if ($string ne "") {
>>>           $filename = $try_filename;
>>>           $image_size = $string;
>>>       }
>>>     }
>>>     if ($image_size eq "") {
>>>       print "Image file not found for $filename, maybe be a case
problem\n" ;
>>>       return;
>> Maybe it cant find a valid $image_size? is the .gif corrupt?
>>
>> Alternatively, what is the format of the .geo, maybe I can convert by
hand?
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> de VK3XCI
>> Norm in Mildura, QF15bt
>> Australia's Wintersun City
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>
>


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