[Therion] Sketches Export Fatal Error

[Stacho Mudrak]

This fatal error should be fixed in todays snapshot.

Regards, S.

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 4:55 AM, Bruce Mutton
<bruce.mutton at paradise.net.nz> wrote:
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> Have checked the morphing samples that come with the install files
> (developers snapshot 2004-04-08) and get the same fatal error.
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> The therion log file contains;
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> therion 0.5.2
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> initialization file: D:\Program Files\Therion/therion.ini
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> reading ... done
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> configuration file: thconfig.1.thc
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> reading ... done
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> reading source files ... done
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> preprocessing database ... done
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> scanning centreline tree ... done
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> searching for centerline loops ... done
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> calculating station coordinates ... done
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> calculating basic statistics ... done
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> processing extended elevation ... done
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> processing references ... done
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> selecting export objects ... done
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> processing projection plan ... done
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> average distortion: 30.54%
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> writing cave1.pdf ...
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> morphing cave1.jpg (0.8 Mpix)
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> Therefore I suspect a bug in this release?
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> I can provide data from a Windows error report if it will help.
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> Bruce
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>  ________________________________
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> From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf
> Of Bruce Mutton
>  Sent: Monday, 14 April 2008 5:05 p.m.
>  To: therion at speleo.sk
>  Subject: Re: [Therion] Sketches Export -sketch option missing from th2
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> Ah ha! I see I WAS missing something!
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> The distinction between "background sketches" in the "scrap" "toolbar" and
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> "background images" in the "background images" "toolbar" was too subtle for
> me.
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> Once I discovered the correct 'button' it works fine, at least until compile
> time, when Windows OS decides Therion.exe has encountered a fatal error and
> closes it down.  Are there any clues in the code below?  (sub-folder? Spaces
> in filename?)
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> -sketch [Sketches/Greenlink Plan J2 sketch 210707.jpg] 0 -784
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> Thanks
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> Bruce
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>  ________________________________
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> From: therion-bounces at speleo.sk [mailto:therion-bounces at speleo.sk] On Behalf
> Of Bruce Mutton
>  Sent: Sunday, 13 April 2008 10:28 a.m.
>  To: therion at speleo.sk
>  Subject: [Therion] Sketches Export -sketch option missing from th2
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> A while back I asked
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> I have had "sketches on" (no quote marks) in my layout since my first
> (almost) Therion steps last year, and not      once have I had my jpg
> sketches exported to pdf.  I expect they       should, and I recall that the
> samples provided seem to do so -  I could find no difference between my code
> and the samples.
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> Stacho replied
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> Do you have -sketch option specified in your scrap? It does not work
> automatically.
>
> In the scrap toolbar - last list box is background sketches. You need to
> click insert button below and then click on the appropriate picture. Then
> this picture should be listed in the "background sketches" listbox.
> Background images in xtherion are not seen by therion, you need to enable
> this manually.
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> And I replied with what I now realize is nonsense so I won't repeat it.
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> And now I've given this some more time I still have the problem that
> sketches are not exported, but I have some insight as to why.
>
> .
>
> Stacho's response above is consistent with the Therion book pg 20 and 32
> explanations, and on studying the morphing sample code that comes with the
> installation, I think that I have been, and still are, following the
> instructions for the required actions within the map editor perfectly. (and
> I can see and trace my sketches as expected)
>
>
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> However on studying the text files produced by my map editor efforts, and
> those in the morphing sample I see that the –sketch option is missing from
> my *.th2 files.
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> From the Therion book…
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> sketch <filename> <x> <y> . underlying sketch bitmap specification (lower
> left corner coordinates).
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> So in theory I could manually add this option using the text editor, but
> there is a difficulty calculating the x, y co-ordinates.  I suppose it could
> be done by hand or by trial and error, but very time consuming.
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> Am I missing something, or is there something my map editor is not
> translating correctly?
>
> Bruce
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