Hi all,

I have installed the both the app version and the command line version of the Sage 5.1 on a MacBook Pro running Lion. Also, I have installed the most recent version of ImageMagick and I've set the environment variables as suggested at the ImageMagick website. I also checked that ImageMagick is working!

Sage's 'animate' command fails when invoking either version of Sage 5.1 from the command line and then entering "notebook" command to start the browser version of Sage.

The example is the first one in the 'Animate Plots' section of the Sage's 'Help':

a = animate([circle((i,i), 1-1/(i+1), hue=i/10) for i in srange(0,2,0.2)], xmin=0,ymin=0,xmax=2,ymax=2,figsize=[2,2]) a.show() # optional -- ImageMagick

Below is the error that is reported by Sage:

============================================================================ convert: memory allocation failed 00000000.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000000.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000001.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000001.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000002.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000002.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000003.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000003.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000004.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000004.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000005.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000005.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000006.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000006.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000007.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000007.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000008.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000008.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: memory allocation failed 00000009.png' @ error/png.c/ReadOnePNGImage/2105. convert: corrupt image00000009.png' @ error/png.c/ReadPNGImage/3693. convert: no images defined `/private/var/folders/31/r_2f8ryd5ks7xb80nyrbj2cc0000gn/T/tmpbsWwH9/sage\ 0.gif' @ error/convert.c/ConvertImageCommand/3044. Traceback (most recent call last): File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module> File "_sage_input_2.py", line 10, in <module> exec compile(u'open("___code___.py","w").write("# -- coding: utf-8 --\n" + _support_.preparse_worksheet_cell(base64.b64decode("YSA9IGFuaW1hdGUoW2NpcmNsZSgoaSxpKSwgMS0xLyhpKzEpLCBodWU9aS8xMCkgZm9yIGkgaW4gc3JhbmdlKDAsMiwwLjIpXSwgCiAgICAgICAgICAgICAgIHhtaW49MCx5bWluPTAseG1heD0yLHltYXg9MixmaWdzaXplPVsyLDJdKQphLnNob3coKSAjIG9wdGlvbmFsIC0tIEltYWdlTWFnaWNr"),globals())+"\n"); execfile(os.path.abspath("___code___.py")) File "", line 1, in <module>

File "/private/var/folders/31/r_2f8ryd5ks7xb80nyrbj2cc0000gn/T/tmpyUOMOA/___code___.py", line 5, in <module> exec compile(u'a.show() # optional -- ImageMagick File "", line 1, in <module>

File "/Applications/Sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/plot/animate.py", line 457, in show self.gif(delay = delay, iterations = iterations) File "/Applications/Sage/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/sage/plot/animate.py", line 400, in gif raise OSError, msg OSError: Error: Neither ImageMagick nor ffmpeg appears to be installed. Saving an animation to a GIF file or displaying an animation requires one of these packages, so please install one of them and try again.

See www.imagemagick.org and www.ffmpeg.org for more information.

This might be a permissions error (which causes the images not to be generated) or perhaps a 64bit vs 32bit lib error. I am not sure!

Note that if the app version of Sage is invoked, Sage is unable to find ImageMagick's "convert" command.

In a previous response to a similar question it was suggested that one should modify the "environment.plist" file to set the environment variables rather than the ".bash_profile file". However, the problem above seems to be more serious than just finding ImageMagick.

In any case, there should be a better fix than this! An average user should not be expected to make such changes in their systems! In future versions of Sage could ImageMagick (or an equivalent) be bundled with Sage?

Regards,

Adam Hausknecht Department of Mathematics UMass Dartmouth