"wrestler" <mew### [at] starbandnet> wrote in message
news:3c59e2f7@news.povray.org...
> I am teaching a high school graphics course and decided to include PovRay
in
> the class.  At the moment I am barely one step ahead of my students
though.
> We ran into a problem today that I can't figure out.  We needed to print
> their pictures they created so I had them go to photoshop and then go to
the
> same place they saved the code for their scene and open the graphic file
(is
> there an easier way?)  The problem is that about a fourth of the class had
> no graphic file, only the povray code file and some file with the same
name
> and the extension .bak.  Can anyone tell me how to fix this so they can
find
> the picture?  Is there an easier way to print?

Check that file output is turned on:
+fn (for png), +fs (for bmp), +ft (targa)
etc

Also, check the messages window (if it's the windows version), and look for
the section on file output.  It will tell you what type of file it is, and
where it is.

...Chambers

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