There is also possibility to work only with the smaller part of the cave - not entire system at all. It should be fast enough. You can also have more xtherions open :) - when you need to switch from one to another .th2 file. I usually do - when searching for some join errors. But my experience is the same: PDF rendering is the most time consuming part of the process. Especially - when you need bigger maps. Acroread does not have "reload" feature - therefore it is almost unusable. I am usually using ghostscript or xpdf, but both of them are slow when rendering bigger maps. We have tried SVG also - but those renderers are even much slower. Therefore we have decided to do rendering of some limited 2D maps also in OpenGL. When it is hardware accelerated - it is real fun - even there are only labels and filled outlines. S. Martin Sluka wrote:
At 15:25 +0100 10.8.2005, Wookey wrote: *******************************************
Having reached this stage there are some issues with speed. xtherion is slow to move from one .th2 file to another (mostly loading images), and the pdf rendering is _really_ slow.
Wookey, just a question - have you check "select" option in config file? If I need only small part of large system, I may "select" and therion will generate only this small part of cave.
"select" works in manual way or if you doubleclick on part of cave in map structure.
MartinS