It now supports 4 different languages (so far) : French, English, 
German, Italian.
Thanks to the translators who help me.
There is room for 3-4 more


Is there a spaniard around here to help me ?



Something else :

When I try to render a file with a space in it I get an error:

povray +iJupiter test.pov +w320 +h240 -f

I get 'Could not find file test.pov

I tried

povray +iJupiter\ test.pov...
and
povray +i'Jupiter test.pov' +w320 +h240 ...

but that was useless.

Any idea what's going wrong ?
Is it only on my system or a common problem ?

Thanks

Fabien

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> When I try to render a file with a space in it I get an error:
> 
> povray +iJupiter test.pov +w320 +h240 -f
> 
> I get 'Could not find file test.pov
> 
> I tried
> 
> povray +iJupiter\ test.pov...
> and
> povray +i'Jupiter test.pov' +w320 +h240 ...


	I don't know if it's a "missing feature" in the command line
parsing, but a least you can overcome that problem by asking POV-Ray
to read the script from stdin. I saw this in the code, I don't know
whether it's documented or not.

cat Jupiter\ test.pov | povray +i- +d +anyotheroptions

or

cat Jupiter\ test.pov | povray +istdin +d +anyotheroptions


	Hope this helps.

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Quoting myself:

> cat Jupiter\ test.pov | povray +i- +d +anyotheroptions
> 
> or
> 
> cat Jupiter\ test.pov | povray +istdin +d +anyotheroptions


	But hey, then there's the same problem with the filename
for the output image, that you must specify since POV-Ray cannot
get the basename from a pipe...
	Have to find another solution or the correct syntax for
space-including arguments.

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> 
> but that was useless.
> Any idea what's going wrong ?
> Is it only on my system or a common problem ?
>
On my system it doesn't work neither...
 
> Fabien


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I think you were the one who told me about this bug.
We have to search what we have in common.

Linux mandrake 8.2, Kde 2.?, run povray from Konsole.
I don't think of anything else for the moment.

Fabien

What system do you have ?



> 
>>but that was useless.
>>Any idea what's going wrong ?
>>Is it only on my system or a common problem ?
>>
> 
> On my system it doesn't work neither...
>  
> 
>>Fabien
> 
> 

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Fabien HENON wrote:
> When I try to render a file with a space in it I get an error:
> 
> povray +iJupiter test.pov +w320 +h240 -f
> 
> I get 'Could not find file test.pov
> 
> I tried
> 
> povray +iJupiter\ test.pov...
> and
> povray +i'Jupiter test.pov' +w320 +h240 ...
> 
> but that was useless.
> 
> Any idea what's going wrong ?
> Is it only on my system or a common problem ?

I've been trying different ways to get povray to accept a filename
with a space in it as an argument too but with no luck. I get the
same kind of message that you're getting.

I am running the Linux version (my own compiled one) 3.5 on RedHat
7.1, KDE 3.01 and I am also running it from Konsole. I tested it
at a text only console though and it did the same thing so I doubt
it's KDE related. I suspect it's just something to do with the way
povray is parsing the command line arguments. But have not tested
this suspicion out nor looked at the source code yet. I'm hoping
to find some time to do that soon.

-Roz

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> 
> Linux mandrake 8.2, Kde 2.?, run povray from Konsole.
> I don't think of anything else for the moment.
> 
> Fabien
> 
> What system do you have ?
>
Red Hat 7.2, Gnome 1.? and povray started by pyvon.


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Does povray deal correctly with spaces in the name of the scenes when 
you start it from a console ?

As far as I am concerned, the problem does not come from Pyvon.


Fabien




> 
>>Linux mandrake 8.2, Kde 2.?, run povray from Konsole.
>>I don't think of anything else for the moment.
>>
>>Fabien
>>
>>What system do you have ?
>>
> 
> Red Hat 7.2, Gnome 1.? and povray started by pyvon.
> 

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Fabien HENON wrote:
> Does povray deal correctly with spaces in the name of the scenes when 
> you start it from a console ?
> 
> As far as I am concerned, the problem does not come from Pyvon.
> 
> 
> Fabien

The Windows version has the same problem. I ran pvengine.exe from
a DOS prompt, passing it scene file names with spaces in the name
and I got the same sort of error message. I tried surrounding the
filename in quotes but that didn't solve the problem.

Attempting to run a scene file with one or more spaces in the name
in a Linux console does the same thing.

It's not Pyvon, it's POV-Ray. I still have MegaPOV (xmegapov) on
my system and it also has the same behavior. I don't know if it's
really that big of a deal that POV-Ray doesn't handle filenames
with spaces in it nicely on the commandline.

Maybe just place a note in your readme.txt file and/or on your
web site about this small issue with pov.

-Roz

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Fabien HENON wrote:
> Does povray deal correctly with spaces in the name of the scenes when 
> you start it from a console ?
> 
> As far as I am concerned, the problem does not come from Pyvon.
> 
> 
> Fabien

I found a fix for this problem. Instead of passing a space containing
filename on the command line with the +i switch, use Input_File_Name=...

For example, instead of a line like this:

povray +i"test file.pov" +a0.2 +w800 +h600

Use a line like this:

povray Input_File_Name="test file.pov" +a0.2 +w800 +h600


Hope this helps you guys out!

-Roz

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