From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/76439 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Use figures without file extension Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:14 +0200 Message-ID: <4FC0E752.9080002@wxs.nl> References: <4FC0DD0B.2050306@wxs.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1338042218 14733 80.91.229.3 (26 May 2012 14:23:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 May 2012 14:23:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Aditya Mahajan Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 26 16:23:37 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1SYHu2-00016O-Jm for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2858101E4; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:33 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id k0n7rYfLCbDo; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85EC7101DF; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5193A101DF for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:30 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id OBPbrevJ4nZi for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter1-til.mf.surf.net (filter1-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.217]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74BA7101DD for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:29 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter1-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q4QENS0Z017108 for ; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:28 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 5.3h2) with ESMTP (TLS) id 3255-1713362 for multiple; Sat, 26 May 2012 16:23:26 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:12.0) Gecko/20120428 Thunderbird/12.0.1 In-Reply-To: X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0RHeCns60 - 8d0b70ad6e54 - 20120526 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.217 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:76439 Archived-At: On 26-5-2012 16:04, Aditya Mahajan wrote: > On Sat, 26 May 2012, Hans Hagen wrote: > >> On 26-5-2012 04:08, Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> Currently, ConTeXt only recognizes the type of figure from the file >>> extension. If a filename does not have an extension, \externalfigure >>> fails. >>> >>> For example: >>> >>> $ cp `luatools hacker.jpg` something >> >> ah .. i see, no extension .. too tricky to support that as they we'd >> need to run an identify on the image which is probably not what we want > > However adding `method=jpeg` works, even if the image is not a jpeg! > >> i've made a simple 'identify' but am yet unsure how to use that in the >> current lookup strategy (as i want to avoid too much overhead ... >> using images without suffix is bad anyway) > > I am using a script to typeset rss feed to a pdf for reading on kindle. > Some blog engines (e.g. typepad) do not set an extension for the image. > As such, I cannot control the input. For the moment, I am using a > workaround: > > \let\normalexternalfigure\externalfigure > \unexpanded\def\externalfigure > {\dodoubleargument\rssfeed_externalfigure} > > \def\rssfeed_externalfigure[#1][#2]% > {\normalexternalfigure[#1][\c!scale=2000, \c!method=JPEG, #2]}} > > Notice the method=JPEG. > > But, I think that I'll need to wrap a custom wrapper anyways, and some > pages contain gif images which cause luatex to crash. I'll add a virtual type 'auto': \externalfigure[yourname.auto] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________