I'm running Gentoo as well and had the same problem. The Gentoo netpbm package must produce a messed-up version of pnmtopalm, because I solved it by downloading netpbm from sourceforge.net, compiling it, moving that pnmtopalm file to /usr/local/bin, and modifying my .pluckerrc accordingly, i.e.--
[POSIX] . . . snip . . . ppmtoTbmp_program = /usr/local/bin/pnmtopalm On Sun, Feb 12, 2006 at 11:42:17AM -0800, Zhang, Peng wrote: > Hi, > > I am using plucker-desktop in Linux. Everything is fine except that It can > not deal with pictures. Can somebody give me some suggestions on how to fix > it. > > Thanks, > Peng > > Error: > Runtime error parsing document > http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/~fizikt/html/hawking/eleven12.jpg: call to > 'cat|pnmtopalm -depth 16 -verbose > /tmp/tmp7dnbwm' returned status 35584 > > Command > plucker-build -f time > http://www.physics.metu.edu.tr/~fizikt/html/hawking/A_Brief_History_in_Time.html > > Gentoo Linux > Linux pzhang 2.6.14-suspend2-r7 #2 PREEMPT Thu Dec 29 18:36:36 EST 2005 > i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 2.00GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux > > plucker-1.8-r1 > media-libs/netpbm-10.31-r1 > > .pluckerrc > [DEFAULT] > verbosity = 2 > bpp = 16 > image_parser = netpbm2 > copyprevention_bit = false > backup_bit = false > launchable_bit = false > icon = false > zlib_compression = true > > [POSIX] > palm1bit_graymap_file = /usr/share/netpbm/palmgray1.map > palm2bit_graymap_file = /usr/share/netpbm/palmgray2.map > palm4bit_graymap_file = /usr/share/netpbm/palmgray4.map > palm8bit_stdcolormap_file = /usr/share/netpbm/palmcolor8.map > auto_scale_images = on > status_line_length = 200 > filename_extension = pdb > anchor_color = #0000ff > > --------------------------------- > Brings words and photos together (easily) with _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [email protected] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list

