> "Ton" <ton### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> 
>> On the command line give
>> declare=TYP=1
> 
> Ah yes, jr has promoted this method as well.
> Also coupled with .ini files
> 
> The thing that always begins nagging at the back of my mind is that anything
> typed on the command line is _gone_.
> 
> having the same mechanism in the .pov file with #declare typ = 1; works just as
> well (?)
> 
> 
> I played a bit with some command-line file conversions, and you can convert a
> ..pov file to .pdf with 'soffice --convert-to pdf MyScene.pov'
> 
> with graphicsmagick, .png can be converted to .jpg with 'gm convert MyScene.png
> MyScene.jpg'
> 
> and then by simply doing 'cat MyScene.jpg MyScene.pdf > DualFile.jpg'
> 
> you get a file that you can either view as an image, or as a PDF.
> 
> I think if we had a tidy way to do a post-render command script to do all 3
> tasks, (and maybe increment a counter) then you could have the scene code saved
> _inside_ of your image, never to be lost, or separated from the image, since
> it's the same file.
> 
> Rename the attached to .pdf and see if it works for you.   :)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
Works well. My PDF reader opens it flawlessly and IrfanView show it as 
an image after asking me if it should change the extension to .JPG.

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