From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: error when using externalfigure
Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2012 11:00:58 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsAzQ28RqrxNKP3SODtAbby_htRBmdV-W83k+0CwMBzL1Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50B33B49.9070206@wxs.nl>
On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:50 AM, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> On 11/26/2012 10:36 AM, luigi scarso wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:20 AM, Pavel Dohnal <pavel.dohnal@twobits.cz>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello,
>>> I have a big context source file which contains pictures from different
>>> sources. The problem is, that there are some pictures the context cannot
>>> process. It displays an error message and ends. I run the context from
>>> another script in batchmode. After finishing, the context creates a PDF
>>> file, which contains this problematic picture but the pdf is broken. It
>>> does
>>> not have numbers in the table of contents and it is not arranged by
>>> setup.
>>> Here is a minimal example:
>>> \starttext
>>>
>>> \externalfigure[http://cdn-locations-images.tripomatic.com/img-poi1295-5ZTynx-s.jpg][width=26.5mm]
>>> \stoptext
>>
>>
>>
>> when I save the jpg as eps from gimp
>> I see
>> width = 6096,00
>> height=4064,00
>>
>> The first value is off for TeX.
>
>
> if i print the values from the img object i get
>
> 17344.8pt
> 11563.2pt
>
> so the problem is deep down in the jpg reader ... the image is crippled in
> the sense that it has no valid resolution information
>
> something for hartmut to check in the img lib
Hm, I'm not sure. It's an image that could be correct, but TeX cannot manage it.
It has 240x160 pixels and 1ppi, so it's 6,096 meters x 4,06400meters
and 6 meters are too much for TeX (which still has its limits around 5meters)
It's ok to print poster maybe, but then TeX is not the right tool.
--
luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-11-26 10:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-11-26 9:20 Pavel Dohnal
2012-11-26 9:27 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-26 9:56 ` Pavel Dohnal
2012-11-26 9:36 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-26 9:50 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-26 10:00 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2012-11-26 10:10 ` Martin Schröder
2012-11-26 10:40 ` Pavel Dohnal
2012-11-26 10:50 ` luigi scarso
2012-11-26 12:32 ` Hans Hagen
2012-11-26 15:01 ` Sietse Brouwer
2012-11-26 19:54 ` Dr. Hartmut Henkel
2012-11-26 20:42 ` Hans Hagen
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2012-11-26 11:21 ` Robert Blackstone
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