Trouble with pbmtext (from netpbm) on DEC Alpha

From: Alok K. Dhir <adhir_at_worldbank.org>
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 19:25:04 -0500 (EST)

Hey all - I built the netpbm package (from what I believe is the latest
distribution: netpbm-1mar94.p1) and all the programs in it work great
except (invariably) for the one I need: pbmtext.

Pbmtext works fine as long as I use a "builtin" font, but as soon as I
specify a "BDF" file as the font to use (pbmtext -font file.bdf "text"), I
get:

pbmtext: no memory for font glyph byte map

The machine I'm running this on is an Alphaserver 4100 with Digital Unix
4.0b and 1 GIG of main memory. So obviously, there is no shortage of
memory as the above error message indicates.

If anyone has any hints as to the problem, and hopefully a fix, I'd really
appreciate it.

BTW - The pbmtext program takes text as input and renders a portable
anymap as output, in a chosen font. This is very powerful for on the fly
creation of banners, etc for use in a web page, especially when combined
with the other programs in the netpbm package. In fact, I was able to
save a "BDF" file of any desired font on my Win95 box with Fontographer
4.0, and then build on the fly, anti-aliased banners using pbmtext (and
company). All this works great on Solaris 2.5.1 (on an UltraSparc) and
under FreeBSD on a PPro 200. I need to get it running on the Alpha
though!

Thanks in advance for any help.

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