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2 Sep 2024 06:18:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Having more trouble with Post Process Filters  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 2 May 2000 15:57:36
Message: <chrishuff_99-3340B0.15004502052000@news.povray.org>
In article <iREPOc7pwRxSTaoV9xM9HzwUTFJl@4ax.com>, Glen Berry 
<7no### [at] ezwvcom> wrote:

> Thanks for explaining that for me. I have now rendered some of the new
> demo scenes sucessfully, but each time I render a scene, I have a
> ".tpn" file left in the same directory as my output image. It was my
> understanding that ".tpn" files are temporary, and should be
> automatically deleted after the render is finished.
> 
> For the record, I am using a DJGPP compile, and running it under
> WIN95. My output format of choice is ".PNG" - I haven't tried yet to
> see if the problem is isolated to PNG output only, but I'll let you
> know later if it also happens with TGA output.

As I recall, this is a known bug: the temporary file is not deleted if 
PNG is used. I think there was another problem: the PNG file is not the 
post-processed version of the image, although I am not certain of this.
If you use TGA or some other format, it should work fine.

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