Thanks for that excellent clarification Martin. Good to know it is not necessarily a bug, and perhaps disturbing that I am becoming "Therion intuitive". Of course I look forward to your theoretical solution in due course, but in the meantime I will try to adapt to the workarounds. Bruce -----Original Message----- From: therion-bounces@speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces@speleo.sk] On Behalf Of Martin Budaj Sent: Friday, 16 July 2010 2:39 a.m. To: List for Therion users Subject: Re: [Therion] Size of pdf error when final pdf size should be OK On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 1:40 PM, Bruce <dangle@tomo.co.nz> wrote:
For another cave elsewhere on the image (sort of top centre) I get the error reported in the scale 1 1000 log file attached, and no output. For this other cave it compiles fine if the surface image is off, or if the surface image is on and the scale is 1:2000 as in the attached scale 1 2000 log file. (Use a text comparator to spot the differences in the two attachments).
If I debug the problem run and check the intermediate data.pdf file produced, the cave is plotted on the wrong part of the surface image, but is otherwise perfect.
Perhaps the error is due to the size of the pdf page produced as part of an intermediate step, as the final pdf page is well within the 5m size limit.
Exactly. The critical dimension is a difference between lower-left corner of the cave and lower-left corner of the image. If it is too large for TeX, it uses maximal acceptable value as displayed in the log file and you get wrong placement of the cave relative to background.
Might it be possible to get a 1:1000 output (1.5m long) without chopping my overall source image into smaller pieces? After all, it works in one case and not another.
Displaying both caves could avoid the problem. It is theoretically possible to fix it e.g. by scaling down the coordinates passed to TeX by factor of 10 and then rescale the map only in PDF file by setting transformation matrices; but this would be quite lot of work. Splitting the image seems to be the best idea currently. Martin _______________________________________________ Therion mailing list Therion@speleo.sk http://mailman.speleo.sk/mailman/listinfo/therion