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>>>>   has the original figure-size scaled 2 and not unitsquare scaled 2
>>> 
>>> can you be a bit more explicit
>> 
>> I might be able to help since I had this problem with scaling external
>> figures in mpost MetaFun.
>> 
>> In ConTeXt \externalfigure[xxx.pdf] brings in a picture at the size of the
>> picture. Scaling modifies that size.
> 
> how about
> 
>  scaled 2
>  xscaled 2 yscaled 5
>  xyscaled (2,5)
> 
> and
> 
>  xsized 2cm
>  ysized 4cm
>  xysized (2cm,4cm)
> 
I think we understand that. The point is that whereas Context knows the size
of the original picture, MetaFun does not.

-- 
Nigel