[Therion] Combining PDFs with a page break

[Tarquin Wilton-Jones]

On 13/01/2025 10:42, Benedikt Hallinger wrote:
> For such cases, I ususally make myself a "build script" that executes 
> the neccessary steps to produce my desired output.
> in this case it would be some therion commands, and then a final pdfjam 
> one.
> I would think that adding something "internal" like this could very 
> easily lead to code bloat and feature creep.


I don't really see "add a page break at this point" to be feature creep. 
We can already combine PDFs internally, but only onto the same page.
Having a combined plan, elevation, overview, in the same PDF seems 
pretty much within scope of Therion - many surveys are produced that way 
already, but with the restriction that they can only be on one page.

Therion also natively creates multi-page PDFs when using atlas mode.

> But wasn't there some thconfig command to execute arbitary code after he 
> compile?


Yes, I do that to run wtkhtmltopdf so it is just a Therion .thconfig to 
run. Run it, it outputs the cavelist, then my wtkhtmltopdf script cleans 
it up, generates a PDF of the cave coordinates, and then the main 
plan.thconfig embeds that PDF in the plan survey, so you can see the 
coordinates.