From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: names of cached images
Date: Fri, 2 Jul 2021 11:43:33 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2107021140330.7291@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPefzZ1daitjhAr-aguY6tzX+0Z7XRWk6Rz02LK9XyfzbdwQ2A@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 2 Jul 2021, Jano Kula wrote:
> Hello again,
>
> likely a bug and one question. Using this code with lmtx:
>
> \starttext
> \externalfigure[mill][width=40mm,cache=./first,conversion=gray.pdf] %
> mill...
> \externalfigure[mill][width=40mm,cache=.,conversion=gray.pdf] %
> m_k_i_v_mill...
> \externalfigure[mill][width=40mm,cache=./second] % no
> visible caching
> \stoptext
>
> *First two figures*
> Chached image in the ./cache subdirectory has a lmtx name without prefix,
> the cached image in the current directory has mkiv syntax with m_k_i_v_
> prefix.
>
> *Third figure*
> The images are cached to a specified directory, only when some conversion
> is used. I'd like to cache images without any transformation. Is there any
> conversion which doesn't alter the figure, just caches it? Is new
> conversion type needed? Or is there other way to force caching without
> conversion?
Conversion is costly and that is why caching makes sense there. What is the benefit of caching (i.e., simply copying the file to a different directory) when there is no conversion?
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-02 15:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-06 11:16 Jano Kula
2021-06-06 14:56 ` Hans Hagen
2021-06-09 13:23 ` Jano Kula
2021-07-02 15:01 ` Jano Kula
2021-07-02 15:43 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2021-07-02 17:00 ` Jano Kula
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