Problem on making mptopdf format file

Problem on making mptopdf format file

[Zhenchuan Yang]

Dear all,
  I am using ConTeXt under MikTeX 2.2 , but when I used "texexec --make"
to make format file, I got the following error message. Could anyone give
me some advice to fix it?
Thanks in advance.

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loading : Context Support Macros / PDF
) (C:\CTeX\texmf\tex\context\base\supp-mpe.tex
loading : MetaPost Special Extensions
! Undefined control sequence.
l.537 \appendtoks
?
! Undefined control sequence.
l.541 \appendtoks
?
! Missing $ inserted.
<inserted text>
                $
<to be read again>
                   \to
l.546 \to
          \MPstopresources
?
! Missing { inserted.
<to be read again>
                   \par
l.547
?
)
Runaway text?
\par \def \invokeMPshadespecial {\doifdefined {mps:Sh:\currentMPspec
! File ended while scanning text of \MPstopresources.
<inserted text>
                }
l.87 \input supp-mpe
                      \MPcmykcolorstrue \MPspotcolorstrue
....
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Regards,
Zhenchuan Yang,Mr.
Instiute of Microelectronics
Peking University
Email:zcyang@vmails.net
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22:51:51 2003-01-21
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Re: Problem on making mptopdf format file

[Hans Hagen]

At 10:59 PM 1/21/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>   I am using ConTeXt under MikTeX 2.2 , but when I used "texexec --make"
>to make format file, I got the following error message. Could anyone give
>me some advice to fix it?
>Thanks in advance.

Looks like an out of sync installation (maybe some old supp-pdf hanging 
around from a different origin), can you pick up the beta from our site?

Hans
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Re[2]: Problem on making mptopdf format file

[Giuseppe Bilotta]

Tuesday, January 21, 2003 Hans Hagen wrote:

HH> At 10:59 PM 1/21/2003 +0800, you wrote:
>>Dear all,
>>   I am using ConTeXt under MikTeX 2.2 , but when I used "texexec --make"
>>to make format file, I got the following error message. Could anyone give
>>me some advice to fix it?
>>Thanks in advance.

HH> Looks like an out of sync installation (maybe some old supp-pdf hanging 
HH> around from a different origin)

Very likely. MiKTeX has its own (outdated) supp-pdf to be used by
non-ConTeXt users for direct inclusion of MetaPost output in
pdfLaTeX. But if ConTeXt is installed in the localtexmf, and this
has a higher search priority, this shouldn't be an issue; to the
OP: check if you have other supp-pdf or supp-mis which are being searched
first.

-- 
Giuseppe "Oblomov" Bilotta