On 12/19/2012 9:38 PM, Guy Stalnaker wrote:
I'm willing to give you an image, but it cannot be the images. I have edited the file and put systematically % before the /externalfigure lines then run context against the file. As I added the % the nil error shifted to the next /externalfigure. I stopped this after five times. I have confirmed, by the way, file/directory ownership with chown and privileges with chmod. They are set as they should be, so whatever is awry is not owner/privilege related.
Another reason it cannot be the images is that I used context with the same document and the same images to successfully create a document. They were unchanged, to my knowledge, the next day when context started throwing the error. While it's conceivable that some agent might have modified the documents and/or my office Linux install overnight without my knowledge, that must be considered a very remote possibility.
That said, I'm hard-pressed to figure out what can possibly have changed, overnight, such that context would suddenly begin throwing the errors. That is why I unlinked/relinked Dropbox. They could change something on their end. But that had no affect on the error. Nor did moving all the images that are in the document from multiple directories into one directory.
There has been some cleanup of filename constructors but nor that drastic. Maybe some are (temporary) More sensitive so nil arguments but that is then an indication of some issue earlier in the chain. The comment and next one being a problem is weird. Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------