Re: XeConTeXt bug report II: MetaPost Graphics

[Yue Wang <yuleopen@gmail.com>]

Hi, all:

I tried this fix with some of my documents and it seems that this
fixed all my documents.
Hans, can you commit that to HEAD?

Thanks a lot, Jin-Hwan:)

Yue Wang

On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Jin-Hwan Cho <jinhwan.cho@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, Yue Wang,
>
> Many years have passed since I wrote spec-dpx.tex for ConTeXt.
>
> The file spec-dpx.tex included in texlive 2008 (the only one I have)
> looks quite changed according to the progression of ConTeXt.
>
> Anyway, your example worked when I change the 763th line of
> spec-dpx.tex as follows:
>
> {\scratchdimen\wd#2\scratchdimen.5\scratchdimen\hskip-\the\scratchdimen
>
> ==>
>
> {%
>
> But, I do not know this modification of \setMPPDFobject does not affect
> other cases. Could you check more examples?
>
> Best regards, ChoF.
>
> On May 12, 2009, at 2:00 PM, Yue Wang wrote:
>
>> Hi, Hans and Jin-Hwan:
>>
>> Here is a simple ConTeXt metafun demo file:
>>
>> \starttext
>> \setupcolors[state=start]
>> \startMPpage
>>  path p ; color c[] ;
>>  p := fullsquare scaled 4cm ;
>>  c[0] := transparent(1,.5,red) ;
>>  c[1] := transparent(1,.5,green) ;
>>  c[2] := transparent(1,.5,blue) ;
>>  for i = 0 upto 2 :
>>   fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor white ;
>>  endfor ;
>>  for i = 0 upto 2 :
>>   fill p rotated (i*30) withcolor c[i] ;
>>  endfor ;
>>  addbackground withcolor transparent(1,.5,cmyk(0,0,1,0)) ;
>> \stopMPpage
>> \stoptext
>>
>> When process the file using luatex or pdftex, we can see a nice picture
>> there.
>> However, when
>> 1) using pdftex to produce the dvi, and convert the dvi using dvipdfmx
>> 2) using xetex to produce the pdf using xdvipdfmx
>> the figure is placed at the wrong place. there will be a displacement
>> for all the metapost figures when xetex is used to produce the
>> graphics. I attach the wrong result in the mail.
>>
>> So my question is :
>> - is this a bug in ConTeXt, or in (x)dvipdfmx. can the bug be fixed?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Yue Wang
>> <test-metafun.pdf>
>
>
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