I was unable to convert any 16 bit images using plucker 1.2 on my redhat 7 linux box. It kept returning the following error:

Processing http://www.drinkboy.com/offline/images/drinkboy_80x32.gif...
Retrieved ok.
Error: Runtime error parsing document http://www.drinkboy.com/offline/images/drinkboy_80x32.gif: call to '( cat -quiet |pnmtopalm -depth 16 -quiet > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) 2>/dev/null' returned status 256
Parsing failed.


I think someone pointed out a while back in this mailing list that the -quiet option doesn't exist on most versions of cat for recent linux.

I found that if I use the "-V 2" option to plucker, then this problem goes away since it doesn't try to give the -quiet option to cat anymore. Eg:

plucker-build -H http://www.drinkboy.com/offline/index.html --zlib-compression -M 3 --bpp=16 -f drinkboy --stayonhost -V 2

will work, whereas

plucker-build -H http://www.drinkboy.com/offline/index.html --zlib-compression -M 3 --bpp=16 -f drinkboy --stayonhost

will not.


Just thought I'd share this nugget of information with anyone who was having the same problem as I was.


Also, maybe a plucker developer could find the line(s) of code that give cat this unsupported option?


Cheers, Aron.

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