[Therion] atlas map queries

[Wookey]

On 2006-12-21 13:25 +0100, Stacho Mudrak wrote:
> Quoting Wookey <wookey at aleph1.co.uk>:
> > 1) There are various blank pages. Why is this?
> > e.g. page17,18,19
> 
> Until now, we did not find an efficient way how to detect whether  
> there is something drawn on the page. We use scrap outline, so if  
> there is "diagonal" scrap, pages in 2 corners becomes empty.
> 
> We remove empty pages at the end, when everything is ready (I guess  
> using layout exclude-pages option).

OK. Fair enough. I will do it that way.

> > 2) Note that whenever the cave crosses the 'edge of atlas page' line
> > there is a fill glitch:
> > Left hand side page 1, Right hand uppper page 2
> 
> ? I am not able to see this, could you please highlight it on some  
> small picture?

Ah, OK. it is an evince rendering bug. It renders OK in xpdf. I will
file a bug.

> > These plots done on therion 0.3.10 as I am having problems with 0.4.0.
> 
> What kind of problems with 0.4.0 do you have?

Mostly 'my debian packaging' I think. It seems to be running in debug
mode and generating reams of output and then I got some error. And
loch killed my X server!

That is original 0.4.0 release. I need to incorporate latest code and
then test again. Then I can give you usewful bug reports. 

I just went back to 0.3.10 so I could get some actual drawing done :-)

Wookey
-- 
Aleph One Ltd, Bottisham, CAMBRIDGE, CB5 9BA, UK  Tel +44 (0) 1223 811679
work: http://www.aleph1.co.uk/                 play: http://wookware.org/