From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/22803 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Mojca Miklavec Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: [metapost] MPtoPDF problem Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:07:42 +0200 Message-ID: <6faad9f00510020807p69a0030ck@mail.gmail.com> References: <6.2.3.4.0.20050930162352.03a52dd0@pop2.mate.polimi.it> Reply-To: Mojca Miklavec , mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1128265752 14832 80.91.229.2 (2 Oct 2005 15:09:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2005 15:09:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Mau Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Oct 02 17:09:08 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EM5RO-0002Ap-Ni for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 17:07:50 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 72DDF127CC; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:07:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07708-08-4; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:07:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 33A55127BB; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:07:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4119C127C7 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:07:44 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07746-02-2 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:07:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from nproxy.gmail.com (nproxy.gmail.com [64.233.182.200]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 17310127A5 for ; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 17:07:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by nproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id o25so58096nfa for ; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:07:42 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=Dygqw5fV3kzVhXxCix4e4ib3YTDdjziUu62TySi6u7S2pFC1Dmsq/wHc6epw3LBKF7rqTjbHvOWdhePB3RnVNj2FpapqfCL9IYmBxKf33XRxQyvaWYIRlUthiSKhALr1A2B2tSXz8Khul+wzFfH1/XcgHnxs0CMEEiaZ0lr4jrg= Original-Received: by 10.48.3.12 with SMTP id 12mr171306nfc; Sun, 02 Oct 2005 08:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.48.247.14 with HTTP; Sun, 2 Oct 2005 08:07:42 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: metapost@tug.org, mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <6.2.3.4.0.20050930162352.03a52dd0@pop2.mate.polimi.it> Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on smtp.ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:22803 Archived-At: 2005/9/30, Mau wrote: > Hi! > > I have been using MPtoPDF (included in the MikTeX distribution, under > Win2K) to convert mp output to pdf. Everything went smoothly until > the end of July. Now it seems that MPtoPDF cannot produce any output. > I suspect some problems with a newer version installed automatically > from MiKTex distribution (MPtoPDF 1.3?) > > My command line is: > > C:\texmf\miktex\bin\mptopdf.exe %n > > where %n is a parameter for the name of the mp file I am working on. > > Does anyone have the same problem? > > Thanks, > Maurizio Problems confirmed. I used mptopdf in August and it worked at that time. I last updated ConTeXt (the package containing mptopdf) on 5th September (version 2005-07-27). This is the whole output when mptopdf is run for a simple mp file: ------------------------------------------------------- E:\Temp>mptopdf filename -fmt=3Dmptopdf: unknown option MPtoPDF 1.3 : filename.* is converted to filename-1.pdf ------------------------------------------------------- The last statement doesn't hold (no file created at all). "filename.1" is OK and mptopdf also works perfectly with the standalone ConTeXt distribution, but not under MikTeX. The funny part is also this one (from mptopdf.pl): if ($miktex) { $command =3D "pdfetex -fmt=3Dmptopdf" } -fmt doesn't seem to exist in MikTeX (any more?). I tried pdfetex --help, but didn't find any useful switches to compensate for "-progname=3Dcontext" except "-alias", but I didn't know how to use it. I'm a bit lost. I noticed that the MikTeX package repository was updated in the last days, so I tried to update the system (for the first time in my life I've chosen to update only the context.cab since I'm working on modem), but now the most crucial parts keep crashing (initexmf, kpsewhich, ...), so I that I can't even work any further and thus can't check yet if the new package brings any changes or not. Mojca