MPtoPDF extension

MPtoPDF extension

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

Hullo,

AFAIK MPtoPDF only suppots the conversion of one MPS file
in one PDF file. Would it be possible to enhance MPtoPDF
in a way that it can build a PDF from multiple MPS files.

Here i mean only files with equal <jobname>, e.g. example.1,
example.2 ... example.6 become example-c.pdf (c=collection).

Maybe the Perl-programm can support the command line switch
--collection/-c, then all MPS files will be included in
one PDF file, every figure on its own page and (i hope it is possible)
every page/Mediabox fits the size of the figure on this page.

Thanks in advance.

Jens

Re: MPtoPDF extension

[Hans Hagen]

At 02:54 AM 5/18/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

>Hullo,
>
>AFAIK MPtoPDF only suppots the conversion of one MPS file
>in one PDF file. Would it be possible to enhance MPtoPDF
>in a way that it can build a PDF from multiple MPS files.
>
>Here i mean only files with equal <jobname>, e.g. example.1,
>example.2 ... example.6 become example-c.pdf (c=collection).
>
>Maybe the Perl-programm can support the command line switch
>--collection/-c, then all MPS files will be included in
>one PDF file, every figure on its own page and (i hope it is possible)
>every page/Mediabox fits the size of the figure on this page.
>
>Thanks in advance.

hm, there is actually mptopdf.pl which happily accepts

   mptopdf hundredgraphics

or even

   mptopdf quitesomegraphics.mp

or

   mptopdf only-these-*.*

and alike; another alternative is:

   texexec --fig=c --pdf whatever-pattern

all these do what you ask for: nicely cropped pdf's

Hans

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Re: MPtoPDF extension

[Jens-Uwe Morawski]

On Sun, 19 May 2002 23:48:40 +0200
Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:

> At 02:54 AM 5/18/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:
> 
> >Hullo,
> >
> >AFAIK MPtoPDF only suppots the conversion of one MPS file
> >in one PDF file. Would it be possible to enhance MPtoPDF
> >in a way that it can build a PDF from multiple MPS files.
> >
> >Here i mean only files with equal <jobname>, e.g. example.1,
> >example.2 ... example.6 become example-c.pdf (c=collection).
> >
> >Maybe the Perl-programm can support the command line switch
> >--collection/-c, then all MPS files will be included in
> >one PDF file, every figure on its own page and (i hope it is possible)
> >every page/Mediabox fits the size of the figure on this page.
> >
> >Thanks in advance.
> 
> hm, there is actually mptopdf.pl which happily accepts
> 
>    mptopdf hundredgraphics
> 
> or even
> 
>    mptopdf quitesomegraphics.mp

It seems my question was misleading. I ask for the support
that multiple MPS files, for example <jobname>.1 <jobname>.2
<jobname>.3 <jobname>.4 <jobname>.5 <jobname>.6,  are converted
to *one* PDF file that contains, in this example, 6 pages with
each figure on its own page.

Jens

Re: MPtoPDF extension

[Hans Hagen]

At 06:26 PM 5/20/2002 +0200, Jens-Uwe Morawski wrote:

>It seems my question was misleading. I ask for the support
>that multiple MPS files, for example <jobname>.1 <jobname>.2
><jobname>.3 <jobname>.4 <jobname>.5 <jobname>.6,  are converted
>to *one* PDF file that contains, in this example, 6 pages with
>each figure on its own page.

   texexec --pdf --fig=c somefile.*

will do that

Hans
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