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From: Sietse Brouwer <sbbrouwer@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure doesn't find mps file in subdirectory
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2013 23:18:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAF=dkzwFUBKDqwc46tONVVM3T4yrEwDYcnVS47yuos0xW1xqHQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87haf42u02.fsf@approx.mit.edu>

Hi Sanjoy,

Sorry for the late reply; I had to dig around in grph-inc.lua, and I'm
a bit rusty at source-diving.

Yep, that’s a problem all right. A bug, even: when you put `simple.1`
in the same directory as the `.tex` file, it is correctly identified
as MetaPost; when you put the exact same file in a subdirectory like
`./fig`, you get the problem you describe. No clue why.

Until Hans fixes this, you can force ConTeXt to treat a file as
MetaPost, JPEG, etc. by passing the `method=` paramater to
`\externalfigure`. For MetaPost, write `method=mps`; I don’t know why
the MetaPost code is not `mp`. (Perhaps that could be made a synonym?)

Complete example below. I hope this workaround helps? Good luck with your work!

Cheers,
Sietse

    % test.tex
    \setupexternalfigures[directory={fig}]
    \enabletrackers[graphics.locating]

    \starttext
        \externalfigure[simple.1][width=10cm, method=mps]
    \stoptext

    % fig/simple.1
    %!PS
    %%BoundingBox: 0 0 29 29
    %%HiResBoundingBox: 0 0 28.34645 28.34645
    %%Creator: MetaPost 1.803
    %%CreationDate: 2013.08.04:0841
    %%Pages: 1
    %%BeginProlog
    %%EndProlog
    %%Page: 1 1
     0 0 0 setrgbcolor
    newpath 0 0 moveto
    28.34645 0 lineto
    28.34645 28.34645 lineto
    0 28.34645 lineto
     closepath fill
    showpage
    %%EOF
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  reply	other threads:[~2013-08-05 21:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-04 13:04 Sanjoy Mahajan
2013-08-05 12:37 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2013-08-05 21:18   ` Sietse Brouwer [this message]
2013-08-05 22:00     ` Hans Hagen
2013-08-06  9:04       ` Sietse Brouwer
2013-08-06 12:38       ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2013-08-06  7:50     ` Alan BRASLAU

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