blob: 549b8b9f2f24c20df6f2ae9b112c7297ade35e4c (
plain)
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
|
% language=uk
\environment workflows-style
\startcomponent workflows-graphics
\startchapter[title=Graphics]
\startsection[title=Bad names]
After many years of using \CONTEXT\ in workflows where large amounts of source files
as well as graphics were involved we can safely say that it's hard for publishers to
control the way these are named. This is probably due to the fact that in a
click|-|and|-|point based desktop publishing workflow names don't matter as one stays on
one machine, and names are only entered once (after that these names become abstractions and
get cut and pasted). Proper consistent resource managament is simply not part of the flow.
This means that you get names like:
\starttyping
foo_Bar_01_03-a.EPS
foo__Bar-01a_03.eps
foo__Bar-01a_03.eps
foo BarA 01-03.eps
\stoptyping
Especially when a non proportional screen font is used multiple spaces can look
like one. In fancy screen fonts upper and lowercase usage might get obscured. It
really makes one wonder if copy|-|editing or adding labels to graphics isn't
suffering from the same problem.
Anyhow, as in an automated rendering workflow the rendering is often the last step you
can imagine that when names get messed up it's that last step that gets blamed. It's not
that hard to sanitize names of files on disk as well as in the files that refer to them,
and we normally do that we have complete control. This is no option when all the resources
are synchronzied from elsewhere. In that case the only way out is signaling potential
issues. Say that in the source file there is a reference:
\starttyping
foo_Bar_01_03-a.EPS
\stoptyping
and that the graphic on disk has the same name, but for some reason after an update
has become:
\starttyping
foo-Bar_01_03-a.EPS
\stoptyping
The old image is probably still there so the update is not reflected in the final
product. This is not that uncommon when you deal with tens of thousands of files,
many editors and graphic designers, and no strict filename policy.
For this we provide the following tracing option:
\starttyping
\enabletrackers[graphics.lognames]
\stoptyping
This will put information in the log file about included graphics, like:
\starttyping
system > graphics > start names
used graphic > asked : cow.pdf
used graphic > comment : not found
used graphic > asked : t:/sources/cow.pdf
used graphic > format : pdf
used graphic > found : t:/sources/cow.pdf
used graphic > used : t:/sources/cow.pdf
system > graphics > stop names
\stoptyping
You can also information to the file itself:
\starttyping
\usemodule[s-figures-names]
\stoptyping
Of course that has to be done at the end of the document. Bad names are reported
and suitable action can be taken.
\stopsection
\stopchapter
\stopcomponent
|
