Re: MetaFun questions

[Jens-Uwe Morawski <morawski@gmx.net>]

On Thu, 06 Mar 2003 14:13:47 +0100
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 09:17 AM 2/28/2003 +0000, Nigel King wrote:
> > >>>>   has the original figure-size scaled 2 and not unitsquare scaled 2
> > >>>
> > >>> can you be a bit more explicit
> > >>
> > >> I might be able to help since I had this problem with scaling external
> > >> figures in mpost MetaFun.
> > >>
> > >> In ConTeXt \externalfigure[xxx.pdf] brings in a picture at the size of the
> > >> picture. Scaling modifies that size.
> > >
> > > how about
> > >
> > >  scaled 2
> > >  xscaled 2 yscaled 5
> > >  xyscaled (2,5)
> > >
> > > and
> > >
> > >  xsized 2cm
> > >  ysized 4cm
> > >  xysized (2cm,4cm)
> 
> \getfiguredimensions[...]
> \let\MyFigWid\figurewidth
> \let\MyFigHei\figureheight
> 
> ....
> 
> xysized(\MyFigWid,\MyFigHei)

ahh, interesting. A plain metapost way as described in my other mail
would be possible if i could run pdftex after the mpost run and run 
afterwards mpost again.
How this could be done?

Jens