Re: mptopdf problem

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wolfgang Zillig wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a miktex installed on xp. Not too long ago I made a update. 
> Yesterday I noticed that mptopdf won't do its job anymore. As I made a 
> copy before upgrading so I could check the behaviour with the old version.
> 
> The "old" version (which runs) is mptopdf 1.21
> The "new" version is 1.3
> 
> The errormessage is:
> 
> This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (MiKTeX 2.4) (preloaded 
> format=mptopdf 2005.7.5)  6 JUL 2005 08:53
> entering extended mode
> **fuenf.mp
> (fuenf.mp [MP to PDF]
> ! I can't find file `beginfig(1).tex'.
> <to be read again>
> 
> When I replace the new file by the old one everything works again.

Hm, strange. Can you print $command ?

       { if ($miktex)
           { if ($dosish)
               { $command = "pdfetex   &mptopdf" }
             else
               { $command = "pdfetex \\&mptopdf" } }
         else
           { if ($dosish)
               { $command = "pdfetex -progname=context &mptopdf" }
             else
               { $command = "pdfetex -progname=context \\&mptopdf" } }

maybe changing the &mptopdf into "-fmt=mptopdf" works better?

(we needed the & because of changes in the (e)fmt switch last year in pdftex, 
maybe we can drop that now, assuming that everyoen has a recent version)

Hans






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