Re: [SL] Email question

[RYAN M. v. G. <lu...@co...>]

----- Stroller <lin...@my...> wrote:
> On 23 Oct 2006, at 02:57, RYAN M. vAN GINNEKEN wrote:
> 
> > Thanks agian for your reply now that i have email working i am  
> > stumped on the logo thing.  I have added my logo to /usr/local/sql-
> 
> > ledger directory it has the following perms and onwerships.
> >
> > -rwxrwxrwx   1 www   www     2425 Oct 22 18:46 logo.png
> >
> > It shows up when i edit my letterhead.html but when i send an email 
> 
> > it is not there just the border I added and one of those browser  
> > palace holder thingys.
> 
> I seem to have just experienced the same thing, but using my logo in 
> 
> invoice.tex
> 
> I had honestly disregarded Mr Van Ginneken's problem as "existing  
> between keyboard & chair" however the problem seems to have  
> inexplicably resolved itself for me, and I can only conclude that  
> something glitchy may sometimes occur with the logo.

Thank for the Vote of confidence hehe as i must admit most of my errors are usually related to something between the chair and the keyboard.

> 
> I have spent some time this morning paying attention to the full  
> format of the .png file - for instance note that:
>    $ file /usr/local/sql-ledger/templates/Service-logo.png
>     /usr/local/sql-ledger/templates/Service-logo.png: PNG image data, 
> 
> 220 x 138, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced
>    $ convert my_logo.eps foo.png
>    $ file foo.png
>    foo.png: PNG image data, 584 x 576, 16-bit/color RGB,
> non-interlaced
>    $ convert my_logo.eps -depth 8 foo.png
>    $ file foo.png
>    foo.png: PNG image data, 584 x 576, 8-bit/color RGB,
> non-interlaced
>    $
> 
> However in frustration I copied back the original logo and it STILL! 
> 
> didn't work!!?! After making trivial edits in my invoice.tex the logo 
> 
> reappeared, only to remain there when I reverted those very same
> edits!!
> 
> When I copied back my_logo.png, suddenly it worked perfectly!!
> So I am completely unable to explain why the image didn't work in the 
> 
> first place.
> 
> My permissions are the same as Ryan's, and I have changed them at no 
> 
> time.
> I can't believe I have made some stupid mistake - even though that's 
> 
> the only logical explanation! - because I used my bash history to go 
> 
> back to the same `cp working.png /usr/local/sql-ledger/templates/ 
> stroller/logo.png` each time. Likewise, I used up-arrow in bash to  
> edit the `convert` command (ImageMagick), then `file` & `identify` to 
> 
> check the file format.
> 
> So my only suggestion to someone else experiencing this is to copy  
> the original logo back and then try again from scratch. Maybe there's 
> 
> something in the email generation process that caches the logo?

I have try ed this and it did not work for me however i will try it again and again just to make sure.  I will post back to this list with my results in the next few days as i am very busy for the next while.  

> 
> Stroller.
> 
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