On 4/12/2011 6:31 AM, Jérôme Etévé wrote:
I'm using LaTeX (XeTeX) to produce documents programmatically and some of them include images gathered from a database, so I'm looking for a way to embed those images in my document without having to write them to temporary files whilst I'm processing my LaTeX.
To follow up on Heiko's comment, a question: whether you are writing the images to temp files yourself, and pointing to those images in your LaTeX source, or whether you include them as some binary data in the .tex file, which is then decoded and written to temporary files by LaTeX so that it can include them, the intermediate result is the same: temporary files are going to be written to disk.
From an editorial point of view it would be much safer to stay the course you are on now, making sure your code generates the .tex source as well as writing the images as temporary files, with a cleanup once LaTeX is done compiling to get rid of all the temporary files that were necessary during the run. LaTeX is going to generate quite a number of temporary files anyway (.aux, .log, .toc, etc. etc.) that need to be cleaned up after the compilation run, and your system is clearly capable of writing to disk, so I don't quite understand why writing the images to temp files is undesirable.
Is there a benefit to only writing a single .tex file and calling TeX over writing a .tex file + image files, calling TeX and then performing cleanup when it completes without errors?
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