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Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 [message #88168 is a reply to message #88166]

Tue, 25 March 2014 07:17

David Fanning
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Mats Löfdahl writes:

>
> Den tisdagen den 25:e mars 2014 kl. 14:51:27 UTC+1 skrev David Fanning:
>> Mats,
>>
>> OK, here is what I think is going on here.
>>
>> IDL 8.3 is being shipped with a version of zlib (1.2.3) that is
>> incompatible with the version of zlib (1.2.8) that is being used by
>> recent versions of Ghostscript and ImageMagick. This results, then, in
>> an inability to spawn these commands from within IDL. Although the same
>> commands will work correctly when issued from a UNIX command line.
>>
>> Barry Lesht discovered on his Mac that replacing IDL's version of zlib
>> with the version of zlib used by ImageMagick restored this
>> functionality:
>>
>> http://www.idlcoyote.com/graphics_tips/macspawnim.php
>>
>> I'm guessing something of the sort will be required on the UNIX side,
>> too.
>
> Thanks a bunch David. I'll ask my sysadm to have a look at it and report back when we've tried it.

I wonder if Chris Torrance can give us some help in how to go about
replacing the IDL 8.3 zlib package with a more recent one?

Cheers,

David

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		cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 25 March 2014 03:09
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 March 2014 05:25
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 March 2014 05:30
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 March 2014 06:51
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 25 March 2014 07:09
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: David Fanning on Tue, 25 March 2014 07:17
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 25 March 2014 09:37
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: Matthew Argall on Tue, 25 March 2014 06:52
		Re: cgwindow unable to create PDF file in IDL 8.3 By: Mats Löfdahl on Tue, 25 March 2014 07:12

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