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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Simple rings with svg
Date: Fri, 11 May 2012 09:57:24 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FACC664.2070408@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1205101240190.14235@ybpnyubfg.ybpnyqbznva>

On 10-5-2012 18:50, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 10 May 2012, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> On 10-5-2012 16:59, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
>>> On Thu, 10 May 2012, Ian Lawrence wrote:
>>>
>>>> I read on the wiki that now svg is natively supported. Hmm.
>>>
>>> No. You need to have inkscape installed (and in your PATH) for svg to
>>> pdf conversion to work.
>>>
>>>> FWIW, I cannot find the intermediate file
>>>> 'm_k_i_v_ChangingField_ILUC.pdf' on my disk either…both graphics files
>>>> are in the same location, both exist, both are named correctly….
>>>
>>> @Hans, could we change the conversion so that it checks for inkscape and
>>> gives a more sensible warning if inkscape is absent?
>>
>> so what is a robust check ...
>
> How about just implementing the unix which command in lua?
>
> (untested code)

Indeed -)

It's more complicated as on windows there can be implicit 'exe', 'cmd', 
'bat' suffixes but some testing shows that a path checker is faster than 
calling which/where so I've added an os.[which|where] to l-os.lua that 
we can use.

I've added a check to the graphic converter code but didn't test (not in 
the mood to rename/remove programs and/or make a test file).

Hans


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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-11  7:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-10 14:48 Ian Lawrence
2012-05-10 14:59 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-10 15:00   ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-10 15:09     ` Marco
2012-05-10 16:50     ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-05-11  7:57       ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-05-11  9:10         ` Ian Lawrence
2012-05-11  9:31           ` Marco
2012-05-11  9:36             ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-10 17:47     ` Peter Münster
2012-05-11  7:53       ` Hans Hagen
2012-05-10 15:22   ` Khaled Hosny

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