Hello!
I'd like to cache images (order of hundreds) from a remote location (not
all the time mapped as drive, download speed and amount of data are also
the factors).
\usepath[dirfile://./resources/**] is likely for speeding up searching not
downloading and I don't know when new images are available (when to delete
dirlist.* files), as described in workflows-mkiv.pdf.
Looks like the cache parameter in \externalfigure is used only if some
conversion is going on.
I could create a conversion which does nothing or only envelopes JPG in PDF
as <id>.jpg.pdf (loading could be faster) and then:
if cached file exists
use cached <id>.jpg.pdf
else
if drive is mapped
download, convert and cache <id>.jpg
else
skip file
end
end
The source file with one <id> will never change or I could re-cache from
time to time to have up-to-date images cached.
Before reinventing the wheel: isn't such functionality or part of it
already available?
Thanks,
Jano
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