From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30957 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sanjoy Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: transparent metafun colors turn nearly black Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:20:14 +0100 Message-ID: References: <4515926A.50606@elvenkind.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1159068033 9403 80.91.229.2 (24 Sep 2006 03:20:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2006 03:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Sep 24 05:20:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1GRKXb-0004P5-Gb for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:20:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8B1581FE5E; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:20:26 +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 31770-06; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:20:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD0351FDCF; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:20:19 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D48F01FDCF for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:20:17 +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 31820-04 for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:20:16 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk (mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk [131.111.48.8]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 3ACAE1FD6D for ; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 05:20:15 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.48.158] ident=mail) by mraos.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GRKXO-0006kD-Ji; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:20:14 +0100 Original-Received: from sanjoy by skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.36 #1) id 1GRKXO-0001B9-00; Sun, 24 Sep 2006 04:20:14 +0100 Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 23 Sep 2006 22:00:42 +0200." <4515926A.50606@elvenkind.com> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30957 Archived-At: These were the memory setting in the /etc/texmf/texmf.d/95NonPath.cnf configlet that is part of Debian and Ubuntu: main_memory = 1000000 % words of inimemory available; also applies to inimf&mp main_memory.context = 1500000 main_memory.mpost = 1500000 I commented out the .mpost line (there was no separate metafun line, which I guess was getting the main_memory value of 1000000), regenerated the texmf.cnf with "update-texmf", then regenerated metafun with "texexec --make metafun" and transparency worked. So thanks for the magic! Have wikified the above in case anyone else runs into it . (I wonder if the live context has been having the same problem?) -Sanjoy `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.' --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.