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[Werner Hug <address@hidden>]

Thanks.

We tried earlier to just link higher quality spectra, of course, but 
when opening the document Texmacs opens these pictures irrespective, as 
if they would have been included in the document. If the figures are 
stored away in order to prevent this, Texmacs shows a short appearances 
and then closes, not unlogically.

Possibly there is an option to get the text opened for editing and have 
the figures linked without them being displayed, what is what you seem 
to suggest, but we have not found it. Please let us know if such an 
option exists.

Making two documents, one with much downsized figures as placeholders 
for editing the text, and a second version where all figures were 
replaced with reasonable quality ones for printing, is how we "solved" 
the problem in earlier work with less figures. For the amount of 
graphical data in the present thesis, while not completely impossible, 
such an approach is preposterous. Moreover, for placeholders to make 
sense in a document which is exchanded for editing, the information they 
contain should nevertheless be identifyable. For relatively fine curves, 
with a 560 pixel figure width (the maximum Texmacs appears to tolerate 
without rescaling), the only way not to have important parts lost when 
displayed on the screen appears to first blur curves. Apart of the work 
which this implies for large amounts of data, it also does not make that 
much sense.

ps and pdf we tried, of course, they do not resolve the problem.

svg, which would appear THE option, just put Texmacs into a continuous spin.

The Texmacs version currently used is 1.0.6.14, but other versions were 
also tested, though not yet the very latest one.

Permitting the editing of substantial documents with lots of graphical 
data might be outside the scope of Texmacs, but in view of its many 
other outstanding qualities, before I accept such a conclusion, I like 
to hear the opinion of experts.

Best regards,

Werner Hug




Lukasz Stafiniak schrieb:

> I don't want to be mean, but this is what I would try: use the
> downscaled pictures, and have the full scaled pictures in a separate
> folder; do not load pictures into the document, just link them;
> replace with downscaled with full scaled pictures just for printing
> (i.e. generating the ps; contemplate the work using the ps file.)
>
> On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Werner Hug<address@hidden> wrote:
>  
>
> > There were several theses (spectroscopy) written with Texmacs in my group.
> > Text and formulae were a dream to work with, but figures tended to present
> > problems with speed. As long as their number was small, this could be
> > handled, but now it appears to have become unsurmountable in a thesis which
> > contains typically more than a dozen figures in individual chapters.
> >
> >    
>
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