From: Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
To: Max Chernoff <mseven@telus.net>
Cc: Stefan Nedeljkovic <tsar.srb@gmail.com>,
mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Compiling a large metapost document
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2022 05:21:06 +0200 [thread overview]
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I figured it out. I was wrongly calculating the page size argument for gs.
Thank you very, very much again Max!
On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 4:41 AM Stefan Nedeljkovic <tsar.srb@gmail.com>
wrote:
> There is one more problem: the pdf generated has incorrect margins. I
> tried to manually calculate the size in ps points and run gs directly, but
> the results are the same. How can I get an accurate rendering of the page?
>
> On Thu, Jun 2, 2022 at 4:22 AM Max Chernoff <mseven@telus.net> wrote:
>
>> On 2022-06-01 8:00 p.m., Stefan Nedeljkovic wrote:
>> > Thank you very much Max! It works indeed! One more question. How would
>> I
>> > import the eps file back into MPpage, so I could do trickery with text.
>>
>> Convert the PostScript file into PDF with either "ps2pdf" or
>> GhostScript, then you can import the file with "externalfigure":
>>
>> \startMPpage
>> draw externalfigure "belgrade_gm.pdf";
>> draw textext.top("One") shifted (264.352, 116.362);
>> draw textext.top("Two") shifted (306.821, 186.907);
>> \stopMPpage
>>
>> -- Max
>>
>
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Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-06-01 14:48 Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-01 16:43 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-01 17:24 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2022-06-01 17:35 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-01 18:34 ` Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context
2022-06-01 20:15 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-01 20:16 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-01 20:25 ` Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context
2022-06-01 21:30 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-01 22:26 ` Bruce Horrocks via ntg-context
2022-06-02 7:18 ` Thomas A. Schmitz via ntg-context
2022-06-02 8:51 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-02 10:15 ` Hans Hagen via ntg-context
2022-06-02 10:36 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-01 23:45 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-06-02 2:00 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-02 2:22 ` Max Chernoff via ntg-context
2022-06-02 2:41 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context
2022-06-02 3:21 ` Stefan Nedeljkovic via ntg-context [this message]
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