Hello,

thanks for the hint.

Could you please check my code?

The function is able to detect number of pages (tested with a .pdf, which works; I believe it will work with other figure formats, too).

When the file is not found, it doesn't break Ctx, which is good.

The problem is that once a file is not found, later calls to the function fail (means they return 'false'), too.
It seems like a figure being "hanging" somewhere or what; but I'm not able to find the bad place iin the code.

Note that the directory structure is:

t2.mkiv - file to be tested
T/Kn.pdf - file to be inserted (2 pages)

---- t2.mkiv
\startluacode
   nOfPages = function(fn)
     local n

     do
       local fig = figures.push{name = fn}
         local info = figures.identify()

--inspect(info)

         if info.status.status ~= 0 then
           figures.check() -- This may check all figures; I'm interested in the last figure only - any call improvement?

           n = fig.used.pages
         end

       figures.pop() -- I thought no figure should stay "hanging" due to this line
     end

     if not n then return false end

     return n
   end
\stopluacode

\starttext
   AAA

   \startluacode
     context(nOfPages("Kn.pdf") or "???") -- [1]
     -- When you comment the line above, later Ctx detects correctly 2 pages of 'Kn.pdf'.
   \stopluacode

   \setupexternalfigures[directory=T] % Find the 'Kn.pdf' in 'T/Kn.pdf'

   \startluacode
     context(nOfPages("Kn.pdf") or "???")
     -- Now, Ctx should find 'T/Kn.pdf' anyway and thus detect 2 pages of 'Kn.pdf'.
     -- This doesn't occure when [1] is on
   \stopluacode
\stoptext
----

Any idea?

TIA.

Best regards,

Lukas


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