#14700: latex2html fails to create png images for math symbols on 10.5.2 -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- Reporter: simon.c.blyth@gmail.com | Owner: macports-tickets@lists.macosforge.org Type: defect | Status: new Priority: Normal | Milestone: Component: ports | Version: 1.6.0 Keywords: | -------------------------------------+-------------------------------------- {{{ latex2html to.tex This is LaTeX2HTML Version 2002-2-1 (1.71) by Nikos Drakos, Computer Based Learning Unit, University of Leeds. ... *** processing 1 images *** Generating postscript images using dvips ... This is dvips(k) 5.95a Copyright 2005 Radical Eye Software (www.radicaleye.com) ' TeX output 2008.03.18:1444' -> /tmp/l2h4967/image (-> /tmp/l2h4967/image001) <tex.pro><alt-rule.pro><texps.pro><special.pro> <color.pro><cmsy10.pfb>[1] Converting image #1 pstoimg: Error: "/opt/local/bin/ppmquant -floyd 256 < /tmp/l2h4967/p4980.pnm | /opt/local/bin/pnmtopng -interlace -trans 'gray85' > img1.png" failed: Invalid argument Error while converting image Doing section links ...... *** Adding document-specific styles *** Done. }}} Switching on debug for pstoimg reveals the error message to be misleading : {{{ simon:tex blyth$ export DEBUG=1 simon:tex blyth$ latex2html to.tex ... *** processing 1 images *** ... Running "/opt/local/bin/ppmquant 256 < /tmp/l2h5269/p5282.pnm | /opt/local/bin/pnmtopng -interlace -trans 'gray85' > img1.png" pnmcolormap: making histogram... pnmcolormap: 10 colors found pnmcolormap: Image already has few enough colors (<=256). Keeping same colors. pnmremap: 10 colors found in colormap pnmtopng: can't open color names dictionary file named /usr/lib/X11/rgb.txt, /usr/openwin/lib/rgb.txt, or /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb.txt and Environment variable RGBDEF not set. Set RGBDEF to the pathname of your rgb.txt file or don't use color names. pstoimg: Error: "/opt/local/bin/ppmquant 256 < /tmp/l2h5269/p5282.pnm | /opt/local/bin/pnmtopng -interlace -trans 'gray85' > img1.png" failed: Error while converting image Doing section links ...... Done. }}} Searching for '''rgb.txt''' {{{ mdfind "kMDItemDisplayName == 'rgb.txt'" | xargs ls -l -rw-r--r-- 2 root admin 17315 Mar 18 03:15 /opt/local/share/lib/latex2html/styles/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 2 root wheel 19974 Mar 18 00:25 /opt/local/share/netpbm/rgb.txt -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 17371 Sep 24 13:34 /usr/X11/share/X11/rgb.txt }}} Trying again, following the hint from the debug ... succeeds to create the pngs : {{{ export RGBDEF=/opt/local/share/netpbm/rgb.txt latex2html to.tex ... }}} The installation would be improved if it was not necessary to set this in the environment. -- Ticket URL: <http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14700> MacPorts </projects/macports> Ports system for Mac OS