Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com From: "Dave Korn" To: "'cygwin'" Subject: RE: unknown device Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 18:48:30 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20040415170944.65492.qmail@web60205.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 15 Apr 2004 17:48:30.0234 (UTC) FILETIME=[DCFF1FA0:01C42311] > -----Original Message----- > From: cygwin-owner On Behalf Of Elvin Peterson > Sent: 15 April 2004 18:10 > When I run gs with the option > > gs -sDEVICE=pngalpha > > I get the error: > > Unknown device: pngalpha > > However, I am able to run gs with the following > option. > > gs -sDEVICE=png16m > > $ gs -version > GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22) > > Any help is appreciated. Google helps those who help themselves: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=pngalpha The very first entry in the list of search results is: "[gs-cvs] gs/src ... bcwin32.mak devs.mak gdevpng.c gdevprn.h macosx.mak msvc32.mak openvms.mak os2.mak unix-gcc.mak unixansi.mak watcw32.mak Log Message: Add pngalpha device that ... www.ghostscript.com/pipermail/ gs-cvs/2003-March/003022.html - 27k - Cached - Similar pages " I clicked on it. Here's two salient details from that page: #1) "Log Message: Add pngalpha device that uses RGBA, with the alpha channel providing pixel coverage. Used for generating PNG images with a transparent background. " #2) "Tue Mar 11 03:36:44 PST 2003 " Here's one salient detail from your earlier post: #3) "> $ gs -version > GNU Ghostscript 7.05 (2002-04-22)" Any further questions? [ There's really no earthly reason you shouldn't have been able to work this out for yourself. I don't even use gs and haven't looked at it in four or five years, but it only took me ten seconds to figure out what was wrong. ] cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/