Include PS in Metapost

Include PS in Metapost

[AlterEgo Qasars]

Good morning.

Since here are many MetaPost gurus, I dare to ask this
question:

Is it possible to include a postscript figure into a
MetaPost source? If it isn't possible generally, is it
possible to include the output of other MetaPost file?

My problem is this: I'd like to prepare a logo for
some society, and I need to include a font (only letters
MUES). I chose Concrete bold font, but it doesn't exist
in PS. With Mr. Hoekwater's help (hopefully I spelled 
your name correctly; if not, forgive me, please) I made
postscript figures from single letters. I can to add them
into the logo with TeX. But direct Metapost approach may
be preferable. Any hint how to do it?

Many greetings,
Michal Kvasnicka

Re: Include PS in Metapost

[Marc van Dongen]

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AlterEgo Qasars (quasar@econ.muni.cz) wrote:

: Good morning.

Howsagoin,

: Is it possible to include a postscript figure into a
: MetaPost source? If it isn't possible generally, is it
: possible to include the output of other MetaPost file?

[snip]

You can indeed. See below.

Regards,

Marc
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%

verbatimtex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
etex;

defaultfont := "cmr12";
defaultscale := 12pt /fontsize defaultfont;
input mp-tool;
prologues := 2;

beginfig( 0 );
  draw btex \includegraphics{fib.eps} etex;
endfig;

end.

[-- Attachment #2: fib.eps --]
[-- Type: application/postscript, Size: 1774 bytes --]

[-- Attachment #3: eps.mp --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 255 bytes --]

verbatimtex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\begin{document}
etex;

defaultfont := "cmr12";
defaultscale := 12pt /fontsize defaultfont;
input mp-tool;
prologues := 2;

beginfig( 0 );
  draw btex \includegraphics{fib.eps} etex;
endfig;

end.

Re: Include PS in Metapost

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:04 AM 5/7/01 +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:

>beginfig( 0 );
>  draw btex \includegraphics{fib.eps} etex;
>endfig;

Are you rsure about that? btex/etex graphics only pass fonts and rules to
the mpx file, specials are ignored,

Hans
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Re: Include PS in Metapost

[Marc van Dongen]

Hans Hagen (pragma@wxs.nl) wrote:

: At 07:04 AM 5/7/01 +0100, Marc van Dongen wrote:
: 
: >beginfig( 0 );
: >  draw btex \includegraphics{fib.eps} etex;
: >endfig;
: 
: Are you rsure about that? btex/etex graphics only pass fonts and rules to
: the mpx file, specials are ignored,

Hmm. You are right. Sorry about the confusion.
I only tested this by running metapost on it.
I didn't look at the result.

Sorry once more.

Regards,

Marc

Re: Include PS in Metapost

[Hans Hagen]

At 07:35 AM 5/7/01 +0200, AlterEgo Qasars wrote:
>Good morning.
>
>Since here are many MetaPost gurus, I dare to ask this
>question:
>
>Is it possible to include a postscript figure into a
>MetaPost source? If it isn't possible generally, is it

you can use use pdtoedit to make a mp file from your ps one 

>possible to include the output of other MetaPost file?

then, you can use metafun macros to include mp subfigs, 

loadfigure "koe.mp" number 1
  scaled .5 ;

and do fancy things like 

refill currentpicture
  withcolor red ;

or 

redraw currentpicture
  withpen pencircle scaled 2pt withcolor green ;

also, did you read the makempy manual? 

[there are also macros for including bitmap graphics, hyperlinks etc into
mp code]

Hans
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