On 07/07/2010 05:01 AM, clipka wrote:
> 
> These are two different things: Removing the "+fn" option gives you the
> /default/, which happens to have been changed to PNG for all versions
> recently. The "s" file type, on the other hand, is a /system specific/
> type. (I guess its importance has diminished a lot though, so if it
> wasn't for backward compatibility I'd say let's throw it out altogether.)

Oh-key-doe-key ... then riddle me this batman ;-)

I have this is unix specific documentation (3.5):

1.3.3.3 Output file formats
The default output file format of POV-Ray for Unix is PNG (+fn). This
can be changed at runtime by setting the Output_File_Type or +fx option.
Eventually, the default format can be changed at compile time by setting
DEFAULT_FILE_FORMAT in the config.h file located in the unix/ directory.

This seems to be saying that png was already default for unix!

The closest I can find in the source is:
~smp/vfe/unix/syspovconfig.h:#define DEFAULT_OUTPUT_FORMAT
kPOVList_FileType_PNG

Is that what the above (1.3.3.3) passage is eluding to?

Lastly ... what is the sys specific format (or type "s") for unix? I
can't find SYS_TO_STANDARD anywhere but what was mentioned in previous
thread in this post. Reference section on Output File Type hints at type
"s" on win/mac (bmp/pict) ... but not for unix. Perhaps I'm chasing
something that simply needs to be downplayed as "legacy" and retained
for backward compatibility reasons, since the default output file type
across all platforms is now png.

Jim

Post a reply to this message