Following up on my post earlier in the
year…
I think I have narrowed to small degree
when this problem occurs and at least found a workaround.
The statement;
symbol-hide
group all
was not working for me in one thconfig using
all of a largish dataset as ‘source’, but worked fine in other
thconfig files dealing with subsets of the same dataset.
All of my exports refer to a ‘LayoutStandard’
that contains a line;
symbol-show
group all
This is sometimes countermanded (if for example
the output scale will be 1 5000) in a SUBSEQUENTLY called layout by a
line;
symbol-hide
group all
symbol-show
<some symbols…>
and if I am processing the whole dataset,
there are no errors flagged, but it appears that the ‘symbol-hide
group all’ is being ignored. (I THINK I have a good understanding
of the order in which layout statements are processed, because I routinely use
multiple layout files, that in turn call other layouts, often with statements
that contradict each other, as a means of specifying output appearances in a
modular manner – no problems except human error until this).
It is strange because if I modify my ‘LayoutStandard’
to include;
symbol-show
group all
symbol-hide
group all
the later statement is correctly
processed.
So my workaround is to remove the
statement ‘symbol-show group all’ from my ‘LayoutStandard’
(or from any layout that is to be called). I guess that ‘symbol-show
group all’ is the default so removing it should not cause further
problems.
Seems strange because they work correctly
when on consecutive lines, but fail when called from separate files.
Bruce
From: Bruce
[mailto:dangle@tomo.co.nz]
Sent: Thursday, 4 February 2010
11:10 p.m.
To: '
Subject: symbol-hide group all
failure
A bug perhaps.
symbol-hide group all
no longer hides point entities
in 5.2.14
Has anyone else noticed this
works or doesn't work for them?
Bruce