Thank you Wolfgang. This suits my needs just fine. Kind regards, Jan Willem Flamma > On 14 okt. 2016, at 10:34, Wolfgang Schuster wrote: > >> Jan Willem Flamma 14. Oktober 2016 um 10:12 >> Dear list members, >> >> I create all my MetaFun drawings in a separate environment file where each individual drawing sits inside a start/stopbuffer. This allows me to easily use those drawings in all my documents using \processMPbuffer[name]. Works just fine. >> >> However, I also wish to have all the drawing available in a pdf file (each drawing on a separate page). This allows me to split the pdf and use the drawing elsewhere (e.g. in a Powerpoint) or include page(s) from the pdf in another document. >> >> The below MWE represent my MetaFun drawings file. >> The idea is that by uncommenting the \enablemode[makepdf] I can create the pdf file with drawings. It seems however that startMPpage does not accept buffers (I also tried processbuffer and processMPbuffer). >> >> Is it possible to somehow make this work? > You can use > > \startTEXpage > \processMPbuffer[…] > \stopTEXpage > > but loading a buffer in MPpage doesn’t work because the content of the environment > is just passed to MetaPost and buffers can’t be loaded inside MetaPost code unless > Hans adds a function for this, e.g. > > \startMPcode > buffer("mybuffer") > \stopMPcode > > Wolfgang > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://context.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________