Re: dia --export= corrupts colors in PNG exports

[Hans Breuer <hans breuer org>]

On 21.02.2005 05:45, Lars Clausen wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 20:18 +0100, Roland Stigge wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > several Debian users reported a problem which unfortunately, I can not
> > reproduce. Basically, on "dia --export ..." from the command line under
> > X, the output png image is identifiable, but the colors are wrong (e.g.
> > white and green on black background instead of default black on white).
> > > From the console (without X) and interactively (from Dia), it works for
> > them.
> >
> > Maybe you have an idea after reading the log at
> >
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=275960
> >
> > Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Sounds like a limited color depth system doing gdk-pixbuf export.  Try
> exporting with type png-libart, which does not try to get Gdk to make
> colors.
>
> Ought to be the default to use that when there's no $DISPLAY available,
> but the exporter selection system is rather primitive.  I guess the
> $DISPLAY-dependent ones could just quietly disappear when there is no
> $DISPLAY.
>
> Could you make a bugzilla report on this?
Or reuse this one:
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=155495
(already fixed in cvs;)


        Hans

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