Re: ps2raster problem (win x64 binaries)

Thanks Joaquim!
I was able to get the 64bit windows binary of ps2raster to use my cygwin 
gs using the -G option. I then downloaded an installed ghostscript for 
win64 using the installer. This also worked, and I was pleasantly 
surprised to find out that the ghostscript windows 64 version was in 
some cases more than 4x faster than the cygwin gs.exe.
So while it would be nice if GMT would compile without errors in 
cygwin64, it appears that the binaries that are provided by the GMT team 
are significantly faster than what cygwin can make on its own.
So, thanks!
Cheers,
-Scott


On 1/9/2014 12:42 PM, Joaquim Luis wrote:
> On 09-01-2014 16:53, Scott T. Marshall wrote:
>> It may indeed be ghostscript problem, but I think I may need some 
>> guidance. I use cygwin64, which comes with ghostscript (gs is in the 
>> search path for window and cygwin), but even if I make these same two 
>> commands in a windows cmd window, it still hangs.
>> Yes, I have installed the gmt binaries using the installers at
>> http://gmt.soest.hawaii.edu/gmt4/gmt/gmt_windows_SOEST.html
>> Note that psbasemap and psxy, and the other gmt commands seem to work 
>> fine. Just ps2raster is having the issues.
>>
>
>> Do the gmt windows binaries require a separate installation of 
>> ghostscript for windows? I thought the windows install had everything 
>> built in.
>> Thanks for the help
>
> Normally yes. That's what I meant when asked if you had used the 
> installer (the ghostscript installer, not the GMT one)
> As I said, on Win ps2raster finds ghostscript via registry, but one 
> can use option -G to override. Don't know what will happen if you 
> force usage of cygwin gs but nothing like trying.
>
> Joaquim
>
>> -Scott
>>
>>
>> On 1/9/2014 6:55 AM, Joaquim Luis wrote:
>>> Don't know. It works fine here.
>>> When those problems happen it is often a ghostscript blame. Are you 
>>> using an old version? Is it installed 'normally' on Windows (with 
>>> the installer)?
>>> ps2raster searches the ghostscript version on Win registry.
>>>
>>> Joaquim
>>>
>>>> Hello all,
>>>> I recently downloaded and installed the gmt 4.5.11 binaries for 
>>>> 64bit windows (I run win 7 x64). The binaries are much faster than 
>>>> my old cygwin compiled versions (thanks!), but ps2raster seems to 
>>>> have a problem. Whenever I call ps2raster, it hangs indefinitely. 
>>>> For example see the simple commands below
>>>>
>>>> psbasemap -R0/100/-3.5/3.5 -JX7.0i/4.0i -Bf5a10:"Time 
>>>> (hrs)":/f0.5a1:"Temperature (C)":WSen -P > file.ps
>>>> ps2raster file.ps -Tf
>>>>
>>>> The postscript file opens with gs just fine, but ps2raster just 
>>>> hangs at 100% CPU usage. I saw that there was an issue with the mac 
>>>> version of ps2raster. Is there is similar problem with the windows 
>>>> binaries? Maybe I have made a mistake in my syntax? This syntax 
>>>> used to work in gmt 4.5.8 though. So far as I can tell, the rest of 
>>>> the binaries work fine.
>>>> Any help would be appreciated.
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> -Scott
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