Re: About 4Tex, ConteXt, MP, mproof

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 11:08 AM 12/26/00 +0000, Marc van Dongen wrote:
>Peter van Summeren (stonepath@multiweb.nl) wrote:
>
>: I found some manual (metafun-p.pdf) from Pragma with the text:
>: \starttext
>: \startuseMPgraphic{dummy}
>:    fill fullcircle  scaled 5cm withcolor red ;
>: \stopuseMPgraphic
>: \useMPgraphic{dummy}
>: \stoptext
>: This text is supposed to work with Context. It compiles ok. But when I
>: want to look at it with Acrobat 4.0, it tells me it can not find
>: mpgraph.1
>
>Metapost generates encapsulated postscript---see manual. You
>have to convert the encapsulated postscript file mpgraph.1
>to pdf. You can use epstopdf fpor this purpose.

If you use pdftex and add either as topline 

% output=pdftex 

or inline 

\setupoutput[pdftex] 

or when running texexec add 

--pdf 

you will get a pdf file directly. 

When you want to convert an stand alone mp graphic output file to pdf, you
can use

mptopdf filename  [or a pattern] 

on the metapost page at our site you can find more about that. Yet another
option is 

texexec --pdf --fig=c filename 

which you can use to make a file with collections of mp graphics. 

Hans  
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