Re: bug in \externalfigure

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Thu, 1 Aug 2013, Jannik Voges wrote:

> Hello everyone,
>
>
> I found a bug in the current ConTeXt Beta with externalfigure. The following minimal example will show you what happens
>
>
> \starttext
>
> \externalfigure[cow]
>
> \externalfigure[cow][width=10cm]
>
> \page
>
> \externalfigure[test]
>
> \page
>
> This text will appear.
>
> This text will not appear.
>
> \externalfigure[test][width=10cm]
>
> This text will not appear.
>
> \stoptext
>
>
> The first two \externalfigure-commands (with cow) will give a grey 
> placeholder with 'state:unknown' in it.

See 
http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Using_Graphics#Specifying_image_directories

You need to add

\setupexternalfigures
     [location={local,global,default}]

> The third \externalfigure-command (\externalfigure[test]) will work, and 
> the last one won't. In this example, you will get an empty third page 
> and the text after the \externalfigure-command doesn't appear in the 
> pdf. 'test' can be a pdf-file or jpeg-file (I only tested whose types of 
> files).

I don't have the latest beta yet, so cannot comment on this.

Aditya
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