The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Alas, the standalone version is only available to windows users. Mac users were not amused with this. After reading dozens of complaints and no solutions, I decided to figure out how to do this myself.

Now, I am not a programmer or anything of the sort. I am a student filmmaker. My programming knowlege goes as far as taking a Visual Basic class in 11th grade. My point is, don't take what I'm saying with a whole lot of weight. I'm just repeating to you what has worked for me. It may or may not work for you.

Let's get started. (Be warned, if you're not familiar with Unix or Linux, this may be a little bit difficult for you.)

First, there are a few things you will need to install in order to make this work.

• X11 for OS X (Information on installing can be found here: http://porting.openoffice.org/mac/faq/installing/X11.html)
• Mono for OS X (http://www.mono-project.com/Mono:OSX)

You will also be needing these files at hand

• The Rasterbator Source Code (http://arje.net/rasterbator)
• You will also need to download this patch (http://screamz.madoka.be/Rasterbator.buildfix1.diff)

Note: I am using a Mac mini 1.83 GHZ Core Duo runnng Mac OS X Version 10.4.8

Now after you've installed X11 and Mono, we'll need to patch the Rasterbator Source code (Rasterbator seems to assume that directory separator is "\" while it can also be e.g. "/" on some *NIX systems, so this must be fixed.), then Rebuild the Rasterbator.exe File.

Patching the Source Code

1. Take Your Rasterbator Standalone folder and put it in your applications folder.
2. Delete the Rasterbator.exe file.
3. Download the patch (http://screamz.madoka.be/Rasterbator.buildfix1.diff) into the source code folder.
4. Go into your Applications/Utilities Folder and open up the Terminal program.
5. Enter this code:
   
   
   
   

   $ cd /path/to/Rasterbator\ Standalone/source/
   $ patch -i Rasterbator.buildfix1.diff

   The return should be:
   
   
   
   

   patching file MainForm.cs
   patching file Makefile
   

Rebuilding the Exe File

1. Enter this code in the Terminal, this will create a replacement exe file with the source code we just patched.
   
   
   
   

   $ make

   (Note: You will have two errors, but don't worry about it, it will work fine)

Launching the Program

1. You can now quit the terminal, and open up the X11 program, which is located in your Utilities Folder.
2. Use this code to execute the program
   
   
   
   

$ mono /path/to/Rasterbator.exe

3. If all goes well it should start right up!
   




Have fun
-Chris-

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