Re: PDFPIC misbehaves if called two times in a row

[joerg van den hoff]

On 31.07.22 18:57, Deri wrote:
> On Sunday, 31 July 2022 17:34:19 BST joerg van den hoff wrote:
> > hi deri,
> >
> > thank you for looking into this!
> >
> > question: the pdfpic.tmac you've send is supposed to work if I include it at
> > top of my document (e.g. the fragment tt.trf) so that it overrules the
> > pdfpic that is probably loaded previously?
> >
> > well, I have done that (include at top), but then it does only generate
> > empty output files (both, with grops as well as gropdf)
> >
> > am I missing something?
> >
> > br/joerg
>
> Hi Joerg,
>
> I tested it by replacing the existing pdfpic.tmac.

ok, understood (question: why does explicit inclusion in file not work??).

> I notice that Branden has just checked in the two line changes in the
> pdfpic.tmac file I sent to you, so I think they were Ok, saves me some typing
> too. :-)

I've know replaced it in .../groff/1.22.4/tmac and noted that the old and new version differ rather 
massively: is 1.22.4 really that obsolete already?

and tried again:

grops now works (thank you!) but gropdf know throws error (NB: moved the picture file to subdir 
`figs' of the dir where the trf-file resides in the meantime -- therefore different path to file):

 error: retrieval of 'figs/aitail.pdf' image dimensions failed; skipping

(and yes, I do have poppler's pdfinfo and pdftops installed :))

so no inclusion of pictures at all...?

best,
joerg

> Cheers
>
> Deri