[xcrysden] Issue with image printing (cygwin)

[Alejandro Suarez]

Thank you for the reply, Anton.

I have tried re-installing/updating any opengl libraries I could find in 
cygwin to no avail. What is strange is the image drawn within the 
xcrysden window is perfectly fine (aside from a known cygwin hardware 
acceleration issue where other windows draw on top of it). Has anyone 
else been using a recent copy of xcrysden within an updated cygwin 
environment?

On 6/14/2013 4:52 PM, Tone Kokalj wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 09:43 -0400, Alejandro Suarez wrote:
>> Hello Everyone,
>>
>> I am unsure if this is a cygwin, imagemagick, or xcrysden error, but I
>> figured I would start here.
>>
>> Whenever I try exporting an animation, printing to an image, or even
>> viewing the temporary *.ppm files created during viewing of an XSF file,
>> I am given a highly distorted image. As an example, I have attached a
>> tarball with two files: a simple XSF file of ZnS (from the XSF format
>> documentation) and the result of exporting the frame to PNG. The result
>> is similar when exporting to any other format, except for the onerously
>> data-heavy vectoral eps (bmp-based eps is still distorted).
> If it gives distorted images also for the PPM format, then this implies
> that it is not a problem of image converting programs, but is likely
> some system OpenGL related issue ...
>
> I don't know, but perhaps consider updating your cygwin, maybe that will
> fix the problem (who knows?)
>
>> Also, this issue occurs with and without openGL support enabled within
>> cygwin.
> The OpenGL is always used, what you mean is probably the OpenGL hardware
> acceleration instead.
>
> Regards,

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Alejandro Suarez
NRC Postdoctoral Associate
Naval Research Laboratory
Washington, D.C.