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From: Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>
Subject: Re: [NTG-context] figure libs
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 15:44:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20021016154448.48d59fe3.morawski@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20021016131856.02067518@server-1>

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:30:19 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 11:31 AM 10/16/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> 
> >i have some questions about figure libs:
> >
> >1) i can only access figures from a figure-lib if the
> >    file is in the same directory as the document that
> >    should embed the figures.
> >    For documents in different variants (screen, print)
> >    i would prefer that i can have the figure lib in the
> >    parent directory.
> 
> \setupexternalfigures[directory={...,...,...}]

Hmm, since ConTeXt is so good in finding components and
environments i thought that finding figures should not
that problem. Setting up a specific directory is not
a solution if different authors (with different directory
structure) work on the same document.
 
> >2) is the XML-file that describes the figure-lib really
> >    required to access the figures in the figure-lib:
> 
> yes, since it determines the page to pick up; of course you can also direct 
> the page directly using
> 
> \externalfigure[somefile.pdf][page=3]
> 
> >/Subtype /Link /Border [0 0 0] /A <</S /GoTo /D (about: fig-one)>>
> 
> it could be done if pdftex supported access to named pages; parsing the 
> file using tex macros is not doable (well, partially, but a pain for 500 
> meg files)

I thought that the parsing could be done with TeXUtil (Perl). Is there
no Perl-Module (maybe a wrapper for pdflib by Thomas Merz) that allows
efficient parsing? But, I see that this way still consumes too much
time (for a 500M file). Thus, having the xml-file in place sounds
like the better solution.

> PS. The fig lib mechanism will be replaced (extended) by a more versatile 
> resource library system (working on that now)

Can you give some examples what enhanced functionality is available
then, please.

Many thanks,
  Jens
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-10-16 13:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-10-16  9:31 Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-10-16 11:30 ` Hans Hagen
2002-10-16 13:44   ` Jens-Uwe Morawski [this message]
2002-10-16 15:43     ` Hans Hagen
2002-10-16 19:55       ` Jens-Uwe Morawski
2002-10-16 13:55   ` Bruce D'Arcus

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