[Therion] FW: Topparser 123 pdf crashes

[Bruce]

Just incorporating the output of topparser in my larger project and I find
that there is no problem whatsoever with empty scraps.

I suspect the crash (due to empty scraps?) is when ALL the scraps are empty.

 

I tried tweaking the topparser output to produce a map that contains the
centerline, and moved the map definitions outside of the survey definition
like this.

 

map 54-EnglishPlanCL -title "54-English centreline plan" \

           -projection plan 

            54 #survey centreline only

endmap

 

map 54-EnglishPlan -title "54-English plan" \

            -projection plan 

            54-EnglishPlan-s1 #empty initially

            54-EnglishPlan-s2 #empty initially

endmap

 

.but always the same error if I try to compile only the single survey and
produce a pdf.

(If the above had worked then topparser could be modified to avoid the
therion crashes).

As soon as one of the scraps is not empty (has a drawing), then there is no
problem producing a pdf.

 

Another workaround could be to get topparser to insert a point station or
two in each scrap.

And yes, a therion warning that all the scraps are empty would better.

 

Bruce

 

PS: Why 54-English?

This passage was dug through 3 rock pile blockages and surveyed in 2.5 hrs
to produce a passage 36m long.

We called it "Feeling English"

 

  _____  

From: Bruce [mailto:bruce at tomo.co.nz] 
Sent: Sunday, 4 August 2013 11:27 p.m.
To: 'List for Therion users'
Subject: RE: [Therion] Topparser 123

 

>PS maps do not work on initials run, as all the th2 file has is empty
scale. Shame it causes a fatal error, it would be nice if it was just a
warning that nothing could be produced, but in my default file I just have
the map export commented out

Do you mean empty scraps?

Hmm, pretty sure empty scraps are OK (there was a bug where 'debug on'
caused a crash and it was fixed in 5.3.11?)

Still, a memory is a dangerous thing after a long caving trip - I'll report
back - but not soon.

Bruce

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