On 12/22/2008 9:48 PM, Lars Huttar wrote:
On 12/16/2008 1:28 PM, Lars Huttar wrote [Re: [NTG-context] distributed / parallel TeX?]:
On 12/16/2008 11:37 AM, Hans Hagen wrote:
The advice I received said to define each mpgraphic using \startuseMPgraphic (we have about 18 of these), associate them with overlays using \defineoverlay (again, we have 18), and then use them in table cells using statements like \setupTABLE[c][first][background={LRtb}] Empirically, this seems to end up using one mpgraphic per table cell, hence our thousands of mpgraphics. I don't know why a new mpgraphic would be created for each cell. Can someone suggest a way to avoid this?
Lars Huttar wrote: ... metafun manual: unique mp graphics Great... I converted our useMPgraphics to uniqueMPgraphics. This reduced our number of mpgraphics from 7000 to 800!
Unfortunately the result doesn't look quite right... but since we may not need to use mpgraphics anyway thanks to your patches, I'll hold off on debugging the result.
When I use uniqueMPgraphics, things run faster, but I get errors and warnings. They look like this:
** WARNING ** Specified (image) object doesn't exist: MP::139 ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command uxobj (pdf:) failed. ** WARNING ** >> at page="32" position="(216.633, 268.835)" (in PDF) ** WARNING ** >> xxx "pdf:uxobj @MP::139" ** WARNING ** Error locating image file "MP::185" ** WARNING ** Specified (image) object doesn't exist: MP::185 ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command uxobj (pdf:) failed. ** WARNING ** >> at page="32" position="(250.44, 268.835)" (in PDF) ** WARNING ** >> xxx "pdf:uxobj @MP::185" ** WARNING ** Error locating image file "MP::141" ** WARNING ** Specified (image) object doesn't exist: MP::141 ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command uxobj (pdf:) failed. ** WARNING ** >> at page="32" position="(284.247, 268.835)" (in PDF) ** WARNING ** >> xxx "pdf:uxobj @MP::141" ** WARNING ** Error locating image file "MP::186" ** WARNING ** Specified (image) object doesn't exist: MP::186 ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command uxobj (pdf:) failed. ** WARNING ** >> at page="32" position="(316.111, 268.835)" (in PDF) ** WARNING ** >> xxx "pdf:uxobj @MP::186" ** WARNING ** Error locating image file "MP::143" ** WARNING ** Specified (image) object doesn't exist: MP::143 ** WARNING ** Interpreting special command uxobj (pdf:) failed. ** WARNING ** >> at page="32" position="(352.456, 268.835)" (in PDF) ** WARNING ** >> xxx "pdf:uxobj @MP::143"
The tex looks like:
\startMPinitializations numeric FrameDist, Inner, Middle, Outer ; FrameDist := 0.6; Middle := -0.2 ; Inner := Middle - FrameDist; Outer := Middle + FrameDist; \stopMPinitializations
% 0 double sides \startuniqueMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtb} % all single draw OverlayBox enlarged Middle ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic
% 1 double side \startuniqueMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb} % left double draw OverlayBox leftenlarged Outer topenlarged Middle bottomenlarged Middle rightenlarged Middle ; draw OverlayBox leftenlarged Inner topenlarged Middle bottomenlarged Middle rightenlarged Middle ; setbounds currentpicture to OverlayBox ; \stopuniqueMPgraphic ... % 0 double sides \defineoverlay[lrtb][\uniqueMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtb}] % 1 double side \defineoverlay[Lrtb][\uniqueMPgraphic{table:frame:Lrtb}] \defineoverlay[lRtb][\uniqueMPgraphic{table:frame:lRtb}] \defineoverlay[lrTb][\uniqueMPgraphic{table:frame:lrTb}] \defineoverlay[lrtB][\uniqueMPgraphic{table:frame:lrtB}]
...
\def\setuptableone{\setupTABLE[frame=off,split=no,option=stretch,offset=0.85mm,distance=0mm,columndistance=0mm,leftmargindistance=0mm,rightmargindistance=0mm] \setupTABLE[r][each][height=0.6cm,align={middle,lohi}] \setupTABLE[2,3,4,5,6,7][4,5,6,7,8,9][align={flushright,lohi}] \setupTABLE[1][4,5,6,7,8,9][align={flushleft,lohi}] \setupTABLE[c][1][background={LRtb}] \setupTABLE[c][2,4][background={Lrtb}] ...}
\bgroup \setuptableone \startTabTableHeader [nc=7,height=0.8cm,align={right,lohi}]\switchtobodyfont[SansB,\countryheadersize]{Table 1.} ...
Sorry, I left out a couple of things I meant to say... Basically, when we run with uniqueMPgraphic instead of useMPgraphic, we get a lot fewer mpgraphic files; but the tables we produce lack the outer border. And we get the above errors. Googling the errors leads us to dvipdfmx, e.g. http://tug.org/texlive/devsrc/Build/source/texk/dvipdfmx/src/spc_pdfm.c http://dvipdfmx.sourcearchive.com/documentation/1:20050831-5/pdfximage_8c-so... But I don't think dvipdfmx is the cause. Can anyone explain the error messages or suggest a fix? We would love to use uniqueMPgraphics for efficiency, but we can't if it gives the wrong result... Thanks, Lars