xjig
Harriet Bazley
http://www.riscos.info/packages/arm/Games/xjig_2.4-1.zip ) states in its
help file that 'Any image-file in GIF, JPEG, or PPM format can be used
as the source for the puzzle' - however in practice it only seems to
accept GIF files. Every JPEG I've tried produces the error "not a GIF,
JPG or PPM file", and the sample PPM file I located
http://orion.math.iastate.edu/burkardt/data/ppm/snail.ppm
didn't work either.
It doesn't seem to require a file extension for GIFs, and adding one
doesn't help for the other formats.
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Alan
> The 'jigsaw' game xjig (port fromhttp://www.riscos.info/packages/arm/Games/xjig_2.4-1.zip) states in its
> help file that 'Any image-file in GIF, JPEG, or PPM format can be used
> as the source for the puzzle' - however in practice it only seems to
> accept GIF files. Every JPEG I've tried produces the error "not a GIF,
> didn't work either.
>
> It doesn't seem to require a file extension for GIFs, and adding one
> doesn't help for the other formats.
>
I've had a look at the source code and done some experimentation and
my
conclusions are:
1. The RISC OS port doesn't support the PPM image format.
2. It will support jpegs, but you need to give it a unix style file
name with
a jpg or jpeg extension.
In my test I successfully loaded a jpeg by using the following for the
file name
on the command line (after the -file parameter):
/<Obey$Dir>/../logo.jpg
Which loaded a jpeg from the folder above where I'd installed xjig.
So if you start the file name with a "/" use "/" instead of "." for
directory
delimiters and ensure it ends with ".jpg" or ".jpeg" you should be OK.
I think the problem is that the program looks for ".jpg" to see if it
is
a JPEG rather then checking for "/jpg" for RISC OS.
Regards,
Alan