From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: MetaPost List <metapost@tug.org>
Subject: Re: Standalone MetaPost Graphics from ConTeXt
Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2012 17:38:46 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1208301731170.23462@qrpragenyvmrq> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFP+xF+=DyGCQeDE-W=M3QogjLaPJ5UTFV3U0sQwgakoGmq62g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, 30 Aug 2012, Troy Henderson wrote:
> Is there a way to output several MetaPost PDF graphics from a single
> ConTeXt source file. For example,
\starttext
> \startMPpage
> draw fullcircle scaled 72;
> \stopMPpage
>
> \startMPpage
> draw unitsquare scaled 72;
> \stopMPpage
\stoptext
> and have a separate output PDF generated for each MPpage? It seems that
> this ConTeXt code generates a single PDF which contains only the first
> graphic. I would like to have either
If you add \starttext ... \stoptext, then ConTeXt generates a single PDF
with all pages.
> 1) two separate PDF's with each containing their own graphic
You can use external tools like pdftk to split a pdf file into multiple
files.
> 2) a single two page PDF where each page corresponds to the appropriate
> graphic.
See above.
> Of course, the "holy grail" would be to be able to "compile" a MetaPost
> source file with ConTeXt.
(Relevant? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/78007)
With a recent beta, you can use:
context file.mp
to compile a ConTeXt file.
Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-30 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-08-30 20:57 Troy Henderson
2012-08-30 21:13 ` luigi scarso
2012-08-30 21:38 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2012-08-30 21:44 ` Troy Henderson
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