Wolfgang—

Can this be extended so as to allow the extraction of the individual
component files (as PDFs with their component names) when processing a
product file?

Alan



On Thu, May 2, 2013 at 2:44 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 01.05.2013 um 23:02 schrieb Wolfgang Schuster <
> schuster.wolfgang@gmail.com>:
>
> >
> > Am 01.05.2013 um 12:16 schrieb Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>:
> >
> >> Hello,
> >>
> >> In the production of (scientific) articles for journal submissions,
> >> one is often expected to supply the figures as separate files.
> >>
> >> One workflow can be through the use of \startTEXpage\stopTEXpage
> >> followed by an external extraction of single pdf pages to separate
> >> files.
> >>
> >> However, is it possible or would it be possible to directly output to a
> >> named file, as in:
> >>      \startTEXpage{figure1.pdf}
> >>      \stopTEXpage
> >> or perhaps
> >>      \startTEXpage [file=figure1.pdf]
> >>      \stopTEXpage
> >> ? (I could not find an answer looking at the source.)
> >>
> >> One could then (optionally) reinclude the figure in a review copy of
> >> the full text through the use of \externalfigure [figure1]
> >
> > You can put each graphic in a separate document and tell context to
> > create a pdf with the \typesetfile command.
>
> \startbuffer[extract:before]
>   \startTEXpage
> \stopbuffer
>
> \startbuffer[extract:after]
>   \stopTEXpage
> \stopbuffer
>
> \def\startextract
>   {\dosingleempty\dostartextract}
>
> \def\dostartextract[#1]%
>   {\edef\extractfilename{#1}%
>    \grabbufferdata[extract:content][startextract][stopextract]}
>
> \def\stopextract
>   {\doifsomething\extractfilename
>
>  {\savebuffer[list={extract:before,extract:content,extract:after},file=\extractfilename.tex,prefix=no]%
>       \typesetfile[\extractfilename][]}}
>
> \starttext
>
> \startplacefigure[title={External file}]
>   \startextract[extract-1]
>   \blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=orange]
>   \stopextract
> \stopplacefigure
>
> \stoptext
>
> > Creating a new environment which does all of this itself isn’t hard
> > because most of the stuff which is needed can be seen in the example
> > below.
> >
> > % the external file
> >
> > \startbuffer[figure-1]
> > \startTEXpage
> > \blackrule[width=4cm,height=4cm,color=blue]
> > \stopTEXpage
> > \stopbuffer
> >
> > \savebuffer[list=figure-1,file=figure-1.tex,prefix=no]
> >
> > % process the external file at runtime
> >
> > \starttext
> > \placefigure{External file}{\typesetfile[figure-1]}
>
> The second argument for \typesetfile is needed to get this working:
>
> \placefigure{External file}{\typesetfile[figure-1][]}
>
> Wolfgang
>
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