[Therion] Embedded image does not appear in some layouts

Bill Gee bgee at campercaver.net
Thu Feb 13 16:56:45 CET 2025


Hi Tarquin -

I dislike using extended elevations.  The folding that is done to create 
the perspective really messes with the presentation.  Plain unfolded 
elevations are, I think, much more useful.

My comment about joining elevations was related to treating them like 
cross-sections.  I suspect that scraps of "projection none" cannot be 
joined.  If they can be joined, then what is the scrap name to use as 
parameter to the section point?

Keeping track of multiple thconfig files is a pain.  As a big-picture 
item - I think that should not be necessary.  The fact that it IS 
necessary points to some needed improvements.  In an ideal world there 
should never be a need for more than one thconfig file for each map project.

I use Linux, so the issues with system path are less of a problem for me.

===============
Bill Gee

On 2/13/25 08:08, Tarquin Wilton-Jones via Therion wrote:
>> The main problem with it is when I want to join multiple profile scraps.
> 
> 
> This is no different than plan view. I have plenty of profile scraps. I 
> just make sure to avoid confusion by naming my scraps with their 
> orientation in the scrap names to keep it clear to myself which belong 
> where:
> 
> fooSE256
> 
> Then the parent file has:
> join fooSE256 at entarea barSE256 at longbypass
> and:
> map elevationME256 -projection [elevation 256] -title "MyCave Elevation"
>    entareaME256 at entarea #map of the scraps in entarea
>    longbypassME256 at longbypass
> endmap
> 
>> So far I have drawn only one section of profile for this map.  I will 
>> have some others.  Finding a way to create a different .pdf file for 
>> them could be interesting.
> 
> 
> I have a separate .thconfig for each, which selects the relevant map and 
> exports it as a PDF:
> Elevation256.thconfig
> Elevation120.thconfig
> 
> Then I have AllVersions.thconfig which contains this:
> 
> system """C:\Program Files (x86)\Therion\therion.exe"" 
> Elevation256.thconfig"
> system """C:\Program Files (x86)\Therion\therion.exe"" 
> Elevation120.thconfig"
> ...
> 
> (These commands are a lot more readable if you put Therion in your 
> %PATH%, or if you are using Linux.)
> 
> Then I combine these into a single survey PDF by embedding the images, 
> or into a PDF with one survey per page (using pdftk or pdfjam). 
> Whichever .thconfig file produces the combined PDF is always the last 
> one that gets run by AllVersions.thconfig
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