Re: Included graphics and background art

[Valeriy E. Ushakov]

On Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 03:49:10PM +0900, Alister Pillow wrote:

> I'm producing a book from text marked up in XML. My eps graphics currently
> weigh in at 491MB and that's just 1 chapter. I would like to be able to
> keep the graphics as separate files from the main postscript output. Is
> this possible?

Untested, but might work.  Create a level of indirection by creating
for each of your EPS files a proxy EPS file with only a %! header, a
bbox comment and a body that run's the original file.  Lout need bbox
comment to determine the size of the object.  Of course your
postscript interpreter should be able to file original EPS file when
you print/view the result.


> Also, I'd like to have a bar drawn down the 'outside' of each page
> providing a visible indication of which chapter you are looking at. The bar
> would have a height = pageHeight/chapters and its position would be
> dependant on chapter number.  I'm finding it hard to construct a box of any
> sort (with @Diag)  in the running header or background due to scoping
> problems. 

You can use @Diag by importing it directly into your definition in
mydefs.lt and using that definition instead of using @Diag directly.

Or you can put the @Use clause for @DiagramPrint before the @Use
clause for @DocumentLayout, since the two packages are completely
independent.  Hmm, this seems like a good idea to do by default in d*
setup files.  Jeff, what do you think?


Hope that helps.

SY, Uwe
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