From: Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
To: Florian Unglaub <f.unglaub@googlemail.com>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Including xfig graphics
Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2011 18:34:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201101081834.51067.alan.braslau@cea.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110107153945.GA4681@mars.foo>
Florian,
This is not exactly how to proceed.
The metapost export needs to be stripped of its preamble
before being used with ConTeXt.
Can you send us a (simple) concrete example, i.e. .fig file.
It may not be worth the effort to get fig2dev fixed to produce pure (LaTeX
free) metapost. I had started learning Metapost playing with xfig exports, but
quickly entirely dropped xfig and now work directly with metapost code.
Alan
On Friday 07 January 2011 16:39:45 Florian Unglaub wrote:
> 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.
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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
2011-01-08 17:34 ` Alan BRASLAU [this message]
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