Re: Exporting figures

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

richard.stephens@converteam.com wrote:
> Hello again,
> 
> I have generated some ConTeXt documents with figures using MetaPost. The figures
> have labels which use \sometxt{}. Everything works beautifully!
> Now I have an unenlightened customer (he does not use ConTeXt) who wants to 
> import my figures into his documents.
> He can accept eps or pdf files or any of the common graphics formats (png, gif, 
> even svg I think).
> I have tried to generate the figures as standalone files in two ways:
> 
> 1) I compiled the metapost to a PS file using "texexec --mptex file.mp". 
> Unfortunately, the resulting
> figure does not have any labels, presumably because it isn't accessing TeX to 
> generate them?
> 
> 2) Inserted \starttext ... \stoptext around the metapost code and used ConTeXt 
> to generate a PDF
> document. This is great except that each figure covers a full page.
> 
> Is there any way of sharing my figures with the unenlightened masses?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
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\starttext
	\startMPpage
		draw fullcircle scaled 10cm ;
	\stopMPPage
\stoptext

please wikify this


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