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From: Florian Unglaub <f.unglaub@googlemail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Including xfig graphics
Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 16:39:45 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110107153945.GA4681@mars.foo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4D26D85B.4080903@elvenkind.com>

On Fri, Jan 07, 2011 at 10:09:47AM +0100, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> I did a quick test, and the transfig mp code starts with this nice (!)
> block of verbatimtex:
> 
> % +MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER
> verbatimtex
> %&latex
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> etex
> % -MP-ADDITIONAL-HEADER

[...]

> It looks configurable-ish, but I do not feel like experimenting
> without a proper test case.

I tried exporting to metapost inside xfig aswell yesterday, leading to
similar results as posted above.

I found out that XFig uses a small shell script called 'fig2dev' to do
all the exporting to other formats. This script supports an option '-o'
to use plain TeX.

I tried \input'ing the resulting .mp file into my ConTeXt-file:

\startuseMPgraphic{foo}
  \input ../figures/bar.fig
\stopuseMPgraphic

\placefigure[here][fig:foo]{A small test}{
  \useMPgraphic{foo}
}

This, however, doesn't work and shows the figure as 'undefined' in the
PDF.

My current solution now is to convert the XFig file to MetaPost with
fig2dev and use mptopdf.

Regards, Florian.

PS: Sorry for the duplicate message, Taco. I forgot to CC to the list.
-- 
Florian Unglaub
<f.unglaub@gmail.com>
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-07 15:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-06 12:21 Florian Unglaub
2011-01-07  7:11 ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-01-07  9:07   ` Alan BRASLAU
2011-01-07  9:09     ` Taco Hoekwater
2011-01-07 15:39       ` Florian Unglaub [this message]
2011-01-08 17:34         ` Alan BRASLAU

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