On Wed, 06 Apr 2011 16:21:04 +0200
Le_Forgeron <lef### [at] freefr> wrote:

> I think, and I might be wrong, that the default file format for 3.7 on
> unix is PNG, not TGA anymore.
> 
> (and to have edited the TGA file format lately (was before RC1, IIRC, to
> add comments),... well it's Truevision Targa, and the version of format
> evolved from very old 1 to 2.0 specification of 1991.
> 
> http://www.dca.fee.unicamp.br/~martino/disciplinas/ea978/tgaffs.pdf
> 
> And there is 2 TGA formats output for povray (the uncompressed one, and
> the compressed one. (+FC vs +FT)

Thanks... But I forgot to mention that indeed, the command line
contains +FT, so the format imposed on povray _is_ actually TGA.

> If you have imagemagick installed, ask "identify output.file" what it
> think about the rendered image.

Didn't know that trick! Identify gives:

test.tga TGA 640x480 640x480+0+0 8-bit DirectClass 922KB 0.060u 0:00.070

Maybe some spurious character gets inserted somewhere in the stdin
path. I'll have to investigate a bit more, it seems.

Thanks,
John

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