On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:30:19 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

At 11:31 AM 10/16/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

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i have some questions about figure libs:

1) i can only access figures from a figure-lib if the file is in the same directory as the document that should embed the figures. For documents in different variants (screen, print) i would prefer that i can have the figure lib in the parent directory.

\setupexternalfigures[directory={...,...,...}]

Hmm, since ConTeXt is so good in finding components and environments i thought that finding figures should not that problem. Setting up a specific directory is not a solution if different authors (with different directory structure) work on the same document.

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2) is the XML-file that describes the figure-lib really required to access the figures in the figure-lib:

yes, since it determines the page to pick up; of course you can also direct the page directly using

\externalfigure[somefile.pdf][page=3]

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it could be done if pdftex supported access to named pages; parsing the file using tex macros is not doable (well, partially, but a pain for 500 meg files)

I thought that the parsing could be done with TeXUtil (Perl). Is there no Perl-Module (maybe a wrapper for pdflib by Thomas Merz) that allows efficient parsing? But, I see that this way still consumes too much time (for a 500M file). Thus, having the xml-file in place sounds like the better solution.

PS. The fig lib mechanism will be replaced (extended) by a more versatile resource library system (working on that now)

Can you give some examples what enhanced functionality is available then, please. Many thanks, Jens

On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 17:43:23 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

At 03:44 PM 10/16/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

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On Wed, 16 Oct 2002 13:30:19 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

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\setupexternalfigures[directory={...,...,...}]

Hmm, since ConTeXt is so good in finding components and environments i thought that finding figures should not that problem. Setting up a specific directory is not a solution if different authors (with different directory structure) work on the same document.

hm, actually it's practice here, in order to prevent duplicates, how is your directory structure for this doc? . |-- Basics.tex |-- Bib.tex |-- Fill.tex |-- Intro.tex |-- Pre-Cont.tex |-- Setup.tex |-- Text.tex |-- env-bib.tex |-- env-chart.tex |-- env-def.tex |-- env-fig.tex |-- figures | |-- AutoColors.mp | |-- Figures.mp | |-- SegmentPoints.mp | |-- basic-patterns.mp | |-- dimen-patterns.mp | |-- font-setup.mp | |-- piechartmp-figures.pdf | |-- piechartmp-figures.xml | `-- verdunklung.mp |-- piechartmp-figures.xml -> figures/piechartmp-figures.xml |-- piechartmp.tex |-- print-a | |-- env-a.tex | |-- piechartmp-a.pdf | `-- piechartmp-a.tex `-- screen |-- env-ovl.tex |-- env-s.tex |-- piechartmp-s.pdf |-- piechartmp-s.tex `-- titel-s.tex

the figure lib is the file piechartmp-figures.pdf||xml in the "figures" directory. The real documents are the piechartmp-a||s.tex in their own directories. The .tex-files in the base-directory are the components and document-wide environments. As you can see, currently there is a sym-link in the base-dir piechartmp-figures.xml -> figures/piechartmp-figures.xml This is because if i use \setupexternalfigures to point to the "figures" dir, then the piechartmp-figures.xml in the same dir is not found. In contrast, if i copy both figure-lib files (pdf and xml) in the base-dir, then the pdf-file is not found automatically. Do you have an idea for a better structure? thanks. Jens