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: >>> Lars Huttar 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? >>> 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-source.html 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________