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* Vector or bitmapped?
@ 2004-11-13 19:23 John Culleton
  2004-11-13 20:42 ` Willi Egger
  2004-11-13 21:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
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From: John Culleton @ 2004-11-13 19:23 UTC (permalink / raw)


After generating a graphic via Metapost and Metafun, is the result a vector 
graphic or a bitmapped graphic?
-- 
John Culleton

Short list of publishing/marketing books:
http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf

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* Re: Vector or bitmapped?
  2004-11-13 19:23 Vector or bitmapped? John Culleton
@ 2004-11-13 20:42 ` Willi Egger
  2004-11-13 21:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Willi Egger @ 2004-11-13 20:42 UTC (permalink / raw)


Hi John,

Metapost generates postscript.

Willi

John Culleton wrote:

> After generating a graphic via Metapost and Metafun, is the result a vector 
> graphic or a bitmapped graphic?

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* Re: Vector or bitmapped?
  2004-11-13 19:23 Vector or bitmapped? John Culleton
  2004-11-13 20:42 ` Willi Egger
@ 2004-11-13 21:44 ` Mojca Miklavec
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Mojca Miklavec @ 2004-11-13 21:44 UTC (permalink / raw)



John Culleton wrote:
> After generating a graphic via Metapost and Metafun, is the result a vector 
> graphic or a bitmapped graphic?

The resulting PDF is a vector graphic of course.

(But if you need a bitmapped one, you can create it any time of course; 
if not with 'printscreen', than with
pdftops -eps img
gs -bSAFER -dBATCH -bNOPAUSE -dGraphicsAlphaBits=4 -r100 \
     -sDEVICE=png16m -sOutputFile=img.png img.eps)

Mojca


PS:

Willi Egger wrote:
 > Metapost generates postscript.

(The original output format of metapost is really postscript, but if you 
use btex...etex or textext, you have to process the plain metapost files 
with 'mp img' and then with 'mptopdf img' in order to get the TeX labels 
typeset correctly; if you use it within ConTeXt, the output format is 
PDF anyway.)

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