[NTG-context] Re: Transparency in external PDFs does not work

[Gerion Entrup <gerion.entrup@flump.de>]

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Am Mittwoch, 19. Juni 2024, 09:50:33 MESZ schrieb Hans Hagen:
> On 6/18/2024 9:54 AM, Gerion Entrup wrote:
> > Am Montag, 17. Juni 2024, 23:50:16 MESZ schrieb Hans Hagen:
> >> On 6/17/2024 5:07 PM, Gerion Entrup wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> I'm using LaTeX-Beamer and TikZ for figure typesetting.
> If you use that kind of simple graphics, you can avoid this transparency 
> hacking by using metafun:
> 
> \setupbodyfont[dejavu]
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \startuseMPgraphic{test}
>      pickup pencircle scaled 2mm ;
>      draw fullcircle scaled 3cm withcolor darkred  withstacking 1 ;
>      draw fullcircle scaled 2cm withcolor darkblue withstacking 2 ;
>      draw textext("one")   withcolor darkgreen withstacking 11 ;
>      draw textext("two")   withcolor darkgreen withstacking 12 ;
>      draw textext("three") withcolor darkgreen withstacking 13 ;
> \stopuseMPgraphic
> 
> \startTEXpage[offset=.25ts]
>      \useMPgraphic{test}{stacking={1,11}}
> \stopTEXpage
> 
> \startTEXpage[offset=.25ts]
>      \useMPgraphic{test}{stacking={2,12}}
> \stopTEXpage
> 
> \startTEXpage[offset=.25ts]
>      \useMPgraphic{test}{stacking={1,2,13}}
> \stopTEXpage
> 
> \stoptext
> 
> It's an already old feature but probably not that well known. If needed 
> I can make something similar at the tex end.
> 
> Hans

Thank you for the example, but learning metafun is another chapter and the
graphics are much more complicated than the minimal example given.

I saw that you pushed an updated version that fixes the bug [1]. Thank you!

Gerion

[1] https://github.com/contextgarden/context/commit/0bcdd3ce47a406ed7852724504e3efe28bc2d9e1#diff-603950e83d66ef32e79066259f4f456250f9f3ae795ade93db2df48d0da1034d

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