From: Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Hans Hagen via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
Subject: Re: Disable reuse of figures
Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2022 04:47:42 -0500 (EST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <nycvar.YAK.7.78.908.2202210445300.554764@nqv-guvaxcnq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4ef10093-262f-86cb-395e-fd8650fc37e5@xs4all.nl>
On Sat, 19 Feb 2022, Hans Hagen via ntg-context wrote:
> On 2/19/2022 7:30 AM, Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > This is related to a bug report for the filter module:
> > https://github.com/adityam/filter/issues/60
> >
> > Normally, when the same figure is included twice, context only includes the
> figure once and refers to the included figure the second time. The option
> `object=no` to externalfigure is supposed to prevent that, but it doesn't
> work. For example, consider the following example the bug-report uses graphviz
> as the external program, but I have changed that to context to keep things
> self contained)
> >
> > \usemodule[filter]
> >
> > \defineexternalfilter
> > [graphviz]
> > [
> > filter=context --purge,
> > output=\externalfilterbasefile.pdf,
> > readcommand=\ReadPDF,
> > ]
> >
> > \def\ReadPDF#1%
> > {\externalfigure[#1][object=no]}
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > Circle:
> > \startgraphviz
> > \startMPpage
> > draw fullcircle scaled 1cm;
> > \stopMPpage
> > \stopgraphviz
> >
> > Square:
> > \startgraphviz
> > \startMPpage
> > draw fullsquare scaled 1cm;
> > \stopMPpage
> > \stopgraphviz
> >
> > \stoptext
> >
> > Behind the scenes, the first \startgraphviz ... \stopgraphviz environment
> writes the content to an external file (\jobname-temp-graphviz.tmp), runs
> `context --purge \jobname-temp-graphviz.tmp`, which creates
> `\jobname-temp-graphviz.pdf`. The `\ReadPDF` macro then includees the file
> (with object=no).
> >
> > At the next \startgraphviz .. \stopgraphviz, the same process is repeated.
> The `\jobname-temp-graphviz.pdf` file is overwritten and the new file should
> have been included. But it is not. The output contains the first image twice.
> >
> > I thought that object=no should have prevented the reuse. In fact, if I
> compile the file with luatex, I get an error message:
> >
> > ! error: (pdf inclusion): file has changed
> '12-two-outputs-temp-graphviz.pdf'
> > mtx-context | fatal error: return code: 256
> >
> > Any idea why object=no is not working?
> the pdf file is kept open, for various reasons:
>
> - performance
> - the might be different pages to fetch
> - analysis happens when the image is placed, inclusion happens later
>
> so you try to reopen an already open file (which has not been completely
> processed)
I see. So, for the filter module this means that one always has to use `cache=yes` (so that each PDF file has a different name). I'll add that to the documentation.
Thanks,
Aditya
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2022-02-19 6:30 Aditya Mahajan via ntg-context
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