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On Wed, 23 Jan 2002 09:10:42 +0100
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 03:14 AM 1/23/2002 +0100, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
>
> >Afaik the code of mptopdf conversion is maintained here, thus
> >i ask you: How can i fix this?
> 
> just use a more recent version -)

Amazing! As always: update first, then ask stupid questions ;>

> [this version also 
> can handle transparent colors, given that you use metafun macros]

It's a pity that on Linux systems this does not work, since only AR4
is available, and xpdf does doesn't support gradients yet, not to
mention transparency.

Thank you. Best,
  Jens