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by leingang
2013-03-26T18:11:24-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)
Replies: 7
Views: 15780

Re: Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)

What about the versions of Ghostscript? Are they the same. Perhaps GS has been updated and allows it to work properly either way now. Is your Linux GS more current than your Mac GS. Actually, no. The mac version is 9.06 (2012-08-08) and the linux is three years older, 8.70 (2009-07-31). I think it ...
by leingang
2013-03-21T04:43:22-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)
Replies: 7
Views: 15780

Re: Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)

Thanks for the important distinction between the pnmraw and pngalpha devices. I have to correct what I said above. Both my linux and mac machines have these two lines in their delegates.xml file: A "ps:color" decoder with the "-sDEVICE=pnmraw" option sent to ghostscript A "ps:alpha" decoder with the ...
by leingang
2013-03-20T13:37:15-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)
Replies: 7
Views: 15780

Re: Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)

You can edit delegates.xml in your IM installation. I don't know enough about gs to suggest what the settings should be, but changing the working version to match the other will probably do the trick. It doesn't seem as easy as that. Both the linux and mac delegates.xml have lines that read ...
by leingang
2013-03-20T10:45:05-07:00
Forum: Bugs
Topic: Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)
Replies: 7
Views: 15780

Convert multipage pdf to animated gif (macports)

I have a two-page PDF file that I would like to convert to an animated GIF file. A post on the TeX StackExchange ( http://tex.stackexchange.com/a/23728/1402 ) gives the following ImageMagick one-liner: $ convert -verbose -delay 50 -loop 0 -density 300 file.pdf file.gif If I try this on a linux box ...