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AdPro Tutorial Problem

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#74521From: THOMAS N. WHEELERFeb 13, 1994 12:05 PM
I recently purchased the upgrade of my AdPro 2.3 to AdPro 2.5 (SN 02-192-734-7410). I have been attempting to execute the tutorials described in Chapter 4. I have not been able to get Lesson 6: FRED: Batch image Processing (pp. 67-68) to work. I took a series of 24 bit iff images into FRED and rearranged them as described in 4.6.2 (page 67). No problems were encountered in setting up the PingPongImages.seq. I then selected process and added the scripts listed under 4.6.3. When I select Process to begin processing the sequence, I obtain a series of requestors which I answer as stated in Item 5 of 4.6.3. However, after these questions are answered, I receive a dialog box telling me that FRED failed on the ScaleToSize.fred script. It does not tell me why it failed, just that it failed! I have spent several hours trying to solve this problem without success. Can you offer any suggestions? Tom
#74599From: ASDGFeb 14, 1994 9:26 AM
The best I can off er right now is to re-examine the tutorial myself and see if I can force it to give the error you got. There are quite a few possibilities that could cause this (or any other script to fail) and I will have to narrow it down some (spaces in file names, not enough memory, etc.)
#74648From: THOMAS N. WHEELERFeb 14, 1994 7:24 PM
I would truly appreciate your efforts in examining this tutorial. I spent several hours without success attempting to execute the tutorial. A bit of further info: (1) I had no spaces in the image file names. I am running AdPro 2.5 on an A4000 with 18 MB of memory. I have AdPro's MAXMEM set to 12 MB so there should be plenty of memory. Frankly, I suspect a problem with the FRED Scale to Size script since all the pre-scripts run and ask the necessary questions, but the Scale to Size script fails almost immediately.
#74703From: ASDGFeb 15, 1994 10:00 AM
If will give the tutorial a run through again although I have been through that tutorial so many times I can do it in my sleep :-). Ill let you know what I finf
#74739From: THOMAS N. WHEELERFeb 15, 1994 8:26 PM
Thanks and I look forward to hearing from you.
#74840From: John WulffFeb 17, 1994 1:56 PM
How about uploading the Tutorial.lha here. I tried to install my 2.5 today and received a bad block error on that disk. p.s. Did you use to work at ICD? If so, congrats on a move to a great company!
#74875From: Thomas HealyFeb 17, 1994 10:00 PM
John, I'm glad I'm not alone, I too received a bad block error on my tutorial disk today. I'm just going to send it in for a new one.
#74907From: ASDGFeb 18, 1994 8:40 AM
I encourage anyone that has got a bad disk in their ASDG software packages to contact us to get replacements. We want to make sure that every one of our customers has fully operational software.
#74951From: Thomas HealyFeb 18, 1994 9:34 PM
Chris, could you also E-mail me the Tutorial file? That would save me the hassel of shipping it by wail and waiting for it, don't know why I didn't think to ask this myself,
#75122From: ASDGFeb 21, 1994 2:19 PM
No prob. I will email it shortly. Chris Edgin ASDG tech
#75137From: Thomas HealyFeb 21, 1994 4:08 PM
Chris, Thanks I look forward to receiving it. Thomas
#74904From: ASDGFeb 18, 1994 8:35 AM
If you want, I can E-Mail you the tutorial.lha file, that would be no problem. Yes, I did use to work at ICD (technical support and wrote all their new manuals).
#74910From: John WulffFeb 18, 1994 8:46 AM
E-Mailing the file would be fine with me if that is an acceptable alternative for you. Thanks for your attention to this matter. -John- via AutoPilot
#75119From: ASDGFeb 21, 1994 2:12 PM
No, prob. I will email them to you shortly. Chris Edgin ASDG tech.