Re: [Playerstage-users] Map files as bitmap entity

[Brian G. <ge...@ai...>]

On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, ahoward wrote:

> Some applications produce PNM files that are unreadable by Stage (the PNM
> statndard is somewhat flexible).  Try converting your PNM to a different 
> format (e.g., GIF) and then converting that back to PNM.  If you have the
> ImageMagick package installed (and you should), try:
> 
> $ convert foo.pnm foo.gif
> $ convert foo.gif newfoo.pnm
> 
> The above is off the top of my head, so caveat emptor.

Alternatively, you can use GIMP.  Load the image with GIMP, then:

     Image->Mode->Grayscale
     File->Save As-> with a .pnm extension
     pick "Raw" for data formatting, when asked

         brian.

>
> On Wed, 8 Sep 2004 dan...@dc... wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> I have an autocad .dwg map that I really would like to use in my
>> simulation. As the stage manual says, I can have a bitmap entity loaded
>> from a pnm file.
>> 
>> So, I converter my dwg format map to a pnm file to test in a world file
>> but It doesn't work. Does anyone know how I can fix it or why this is 
>> happening? Is there any advice I should know to use this kind of file in
>> stage?
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Danielle.