Re: Simple rings with svg

[Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com>]

Aha,
Well, my contribution will be to adjust the wiki for simple minded
people like me…as I think my solution will be (if I decide for svg) to
batch convert these before launching the context build process.

Thanks to all

On 11 May 2012 08:57, Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
> 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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