Re: Can't show up x-faces on WinXP installation

[Reiner Steib]

On Thu, Nov 30 2006, Rud1ger Sch1erz wrote:

> just got an emacs version from sourceforge, which can handle images
> now. I've got compface 1.5.2 from sourceforge, too. And icon2pbm.
>
> Anyway, I can't manage, to see the x-face, like on my linux box. I see
> face, but no x-fach. :-/
>
> MSwindows XPpro
> GNU Emacs 22.0.50.1 (i386-mingw-nt5.1.2600) of 2005-06-26 on NONIQPC
> Gnus v5.11

Please don't use outdated CVS versions.  There are current version on
<http://ourcomments.org/Emacs/EmacsW32.html> and I heard that there
will be Windows binaries for the pretest versions on
<ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/pretest/> soon.

> I don't get any error message, just the x-face doesn't show up.
>
> Any idea?

,----[ (info "(gnus)X-Face") ]
|    Viewing an `X-Face' header either requires an Emacs that has
| `compface' support (which most XEmacs versions has), or that you
| have suitable conversion or display programs installed.  If your
| Emacs has image support the default action is to display the face
| before the `From' header.  If there's no native `X-Face' support,
| Gnus will try to convert the `X-Face' header using external programs
| from the `pbmplus' package and friends.  [...]  The default action
| under Emacs without image support is to fork off the `display'
| program.
| 
|    On a GNU/Linux system, the `display' program is from the ImageMagick
| package.  For external conversion programs look for packages with names
| like `netpbm', `libgr-progs' and `compface'.
`----

I don't have a windows to test it, but by looking at the code it seems
that you need to install windows versions of the uncompface and
icontopbm executables.  If a windows user could provide us concrete
information (download URLs, ...), we could improve the manual.

Bye, Reiner.
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