From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/9544 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [NTG-context] figure libs Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:43:23 +0200 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ref.vet.uu.nl Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20021016173935.03419640@server-1> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20021016131856.02067518@server-1> <20021016113101.01e22785.morawski@gmx.net> <5.1.0.14.1.20021016131856.02067518@server-1> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035399855 3872 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 19:04:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 19:04:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: ConTeXt Original-Received: from hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de (hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de [134.176.2.15]) by osiris.hrz.uni-giessen.de (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g9GFrje23254 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:53:45 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl by hermes.hrz.uni-giessen.de with ESMTP for Guenter.Partosch@hrz.uni-giessen.de; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:53:31 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58D1910AE1; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:53:23 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mail.solcon.nl (mail.solcon.nl [212.45.33.11]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65FDF10AD9 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:52:24 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from server-1.pragma-ade.nl (wc-58016.solcon.nl [212.45.58.16]) by mail.solcon.nl (8.12.5/pre1.0-MySQL/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g9GFmClN016759; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:48:12 +0200 Original-Received: from LAPTOP-3.wxs.nl (laptop-3 [10.100.1.191]) by server-1.pragma-ade.nl (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g9GFqJgk008485; Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:52:20 +0200 X-Sender: hagen-mail@server-1 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Original-To: Jens-Uwe Morawski In-Reply-To: <20021016154448.48d59fe3.morawski@gmx.net> X-RAVMilter-Version: 8.4.1(snapshot 20020919) (mail.solcon.nl) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ref.vet.uu.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:9544 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:9544 At 03:44 PM 10/16/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote: >On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:30:19 +0200 >Hans Hagen 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. hm, actually it's practice here, in order to prevent duplicates, how is your directory structure for this doc? > > >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 <> > > > > 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. next versions of context will also provide you a mechanism for generating the library > > 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. - labeling, language or application dependent - alternatives, like graphics, placeholders, applets, videos, depending on the kind of doc instance - more associated data - clipping, manipulation, etc - slide show features Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ ntg-context mailing list ntg-context@ref.ntg.nl http://ref.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context