November 2012 - Therion

Error 768
by Andrew Atkinson 06 Sep '13

06 Sep '13

Hello Debian wheezy. Therion 5.3.9 and 5.3.10 First some history. I was using 5.3.9, but last weekend I was running a course in Wales so needed the OSGB:SN which is added to 5.3.10. So to achieve this built 5.3.10 from source as 5.3.10 is not in wheezy due to the freeze. So when producing a pdf I get the Error 768, log attached, everything else I do seems to work as normal Wookey was there to help, so also tried installing 5.3.10 from .deb and then 5.3.9 from the .deb, both with the same error. Now in the error there is the bit that says ! Unable to make mpx file. l.2 btex \mainfont 0 etex The two files given above are one of your source files and an auxiliary file I need to read to find out what your btex..etex blocks mean. If you don't know why I had trouble, try running it manually through MPtoTeX, TeX, and DVItoMP played around with this, but really do not know what I am doing, but it might help me trace the problem. 5.3.10 worked on Wookeys Wheezy machine, so the w/e training could continue, at least. This was generated when running the thconfig file in http://www.cave-registry.org.uk/svn/CheddarCatchment/Reservoir/ Thanks Andrew

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PDA final solution?
by Martin Sluka 07 Jan '13

07 Jan '13

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background sketch inserted multiple times
by Bruce 03 Jan '13

03 Jan '13

Michael I think you just added a wiki item on Fuchslabyrinth caves where it says Therions bitmap morphing feature is being used. I am intrigued because in 2008 or 2009 we were starting to use this feature, then we were delayed, and by the time we got back to experimenting there was a bug in the next version of Therion whereby the sketches were inserted into the pdf outputs multiple times, taking inordinate time to compile and making the pdf files very large, 100's of megabytes in many cases. Stacho acknowledged the bug and I think some change was made in 5.3.9, but it did not fix the problem for us. Described here http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gis.therion/2680/match=sketches I have tried again with a couple of different files using 5.3.10, in one trivial case a 283kB sketch inserted in a small map produced an 11MB pdf file (the pdf without the sketch is 300kB). So I am wondering how you are making it workable? Either; - something in our custom metapost or layouts is causing the error for us and you are not experiencing this bug, or - you are using an old version of Therion in which this feature was bug free, or - you are putting up with very large output files, even for very small portions of your overall project I'm interested in your comments. Bruce

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Wiki - new metaapost code
by Dave Clucas 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

I have uploaded a couple of user defined symbols to the Metapost section of the Wiki. I've also added an Asia Pacific project. Dave Clucas dave(a)daveclucas.com http://daveclucas.com http://mycaves.org

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3D on iPad (reposted from Survex mailing list)
by Martin Sluka 04 Dec '12

04 Dec '12

From: Rowena Larkins <rowena1234(a)hotmail.com> Subject: RE: aven on iPad? Date: 25. listopadu 2012 01:56:08 GMT+01:00 Hi, If you want to be able to see your cave wireframe on an iPad I have had some success with an application called "Viewshape". it is an iPhone app so is a bit clunky on the iPad screen. It loads .obj files not .3d files. I started with a WRL file as generated by Therion, which also generates a 3d aven file. I did the conversions with a program called AccuTrans3D which comes as a 30-day evaluation license. If there are better ways to upload the images to iPad I would love to hear about them. Rowena Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 10:57:08 +0000 From: warrenfamily(a)madasafish.com To: survex(a)survex.com Subject: aven on iPad? Anyone working on a .3d viewer for the iPad? -- Patrick -- Survex http://lists.survex.com/mailman/listinfo/survex

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Failed to delete tmp directories
by Andrew Atkinson 02 Dec '12

02 Dec '12

Every time I compile I get this error therion: warning -- error deleting temporary directory -- /tmp/th7128 eventually it fills up my drive, that makes lots of horrible things happen I also noticed that the same happened on Wookeys machine, both Debian Wheezy, running 5.3.9 and 5.3.10 thanks Andrew

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export of dxf data
by Graham Mullan 29 Nov '12

29 Nov '12

As mentioned earlier, I have given a dxf file to someone to see how it imported in their CAD system. It comes into their system OK, but seems to have lost the correct grid co-ordinates, in this case OSGB: ST in doing so. Does anyone else have any experience of this? Graham -- graham.mullan(a)coly.org.uk 0117 9502556 or 07887 637064 (or 0844 2327803)

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cavelength and unsurveyed passages
by Martin Gerbaux 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

Hi I would like that in the legend, cavelength information corresponds to length of centerlines plus length of other explored passages (referenced as station 2_45 "départ méandre étroit" continuation explored 20m). I did not succeed in getting it many several searches and try. Is there a way to do this ? Regards Martin

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pockettopo 1.37
by Bruce 25 Nov '12

25 Nov '12

Hi Beat I just noticed that PocketTopo 1.37 was released last month, so I'll advertise it here on the Therion list. (I'll be pleased not to get stuck at 1:10 scale any more!) We look forward to the results of the Leica Disto X310 project. I notice a correction to Pockettopo's Therion export was made, but no details are provided. http://paperless.bheeb.ch/PocketTopo13.html Was that bug something that will leave behind problems in our data exported with 1.36 versions? (We did not notice anything). And does 1.37 address issues with drawings being flipped when a standalone survey is then connected into the main survey network? Regards Bruce

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if exist colour_water_bg (Bruce)
by Dave Clucas 22 Nov '12

22 Nov '12

This works fine now that I've read the full article On 18 Nov 2012, at 11:00, therion-request(a)speleo.sk wrote: > 1. if exist colour_water_bg (Bruce) Dave Clucas dave(a)daveclucas.com http://daveclucas.com http://mycaves.org

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