[Therion] Feedback on 0.3.8 - queries

[Stacho Mudrak]

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:
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> 
>> 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