[pstricks] pst-pdf and readdata: long compilation time

[Antoine Pairet]

Hello!

On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 10:18 +0200, Herbert Voss wrote:
> Antoine Pairet schrieb:
> 
> > I use pst-pdf in order to mix PStricks code and jpegs in the same
> > document. In this document great amount of data is plotted. What I mean
> > is that large files are read with readdata and then plotted with
> > PStricks. What I would like to achieve is that data are only read once.
> > 
> > I use a Makefile to handle this compilation scheme:
> > latex MAIN.tex
> > dvips -o MAIN-pics.ps MAIN.dvi
> > ps2pdf MAIN-pics.ps
> > pdflatex MAIN.tex
> 
> try
> 
> pdflatex `\AtBeginDocument{\def\readdata#1#2{}} \input{MAIN.tex}`

It does not seem to work, here is the output I got:

  ps2pdf supraMain-pics.ps
  pdflatex `\AtBeginDocument{\def\readdata#1#2{}} \input{supraMain.tex}`
  /bin/sh: AtBeginDocument{defreaddata#1#2{}}: not found
  This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.40.3 (Web2C 7.5.6)
   %&-line parsing enabled.
  **

After entering the file name at the prompt, the build goes on. However
the readdata commands are read and executed.

Modifying the quotes from ` to ' :
  pdflatex '\AtBeginDocument{\def\readdata#1#2{}} \input{supraMain.tex}'
gives the following error:
  (./supraReaddata.tex
  ! Undefined control sequence.
  l.1 \readdata[ignoreLines=5,nStep=25]{\macroRT
                                                }{dataPlot/macroRT.dat}
  ? 

The error seems to come from the optional args contained in the
brackets. Indeed suppressing those args and manually removing the first
5 lines of the macroRT.dat file corrects the error. However, the build
stops at the next readdata command:

(./supraReaddata.tex
! Undefined control sequence.
l.2 ...ta[ignoreLines=5,nStep=1]{\nanoVIfourFilter
                                                  }{dataPlot/nanoVI42KFilter...

?

I tried to modify the command 
  pdflatex '\AtBeginDocument{\def\readdata#1#2{}} \input{supraMain.tex}'
to
  pdflatex '\AtBeginDocument{\def\readdata#1#2#3#4{}}
\input{supraMain.tex}'
But it does not work either. 

The following files are attached:
 supraReadata.tex contains all the readdata commands
 Makefile 
 supraMain.tex main file of the project

Best regards,
Antoine

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