Standalone MetaPost Graphics from ConTeXt

Standalone MetaPost Graphics from ConTeXt

[Troy Henderson]

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Is there a way to output several MetaPost PDF graphics from a single
ConTeXt source file.  For example,

\startMPpage
  draw fullcircle scaled 72;
\stopMPpage

\startMPpage
  draw unitsquare scaled 72;
\stopMPpage

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

1) two separate PDF's with each containing their own graphic
2) a single two page PDF where each page corresponds to the appropriate
graphic.

Of course, the "holy grail" would be to be able to "compile" a MetaPost
source file with ConTeXt.

Troy Henderson

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Re: Standalone MetaPost Graphics from ConTeXt

[luigi scarso]

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On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Troy Henderson <thenders@gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to output several MetaPost PDF graphics from a single
> ConTeXt source file.  For example,
>
> \startMPpage
>   draw fullcircle scaled 72;
> \stopMPpage
>
> \startMPpage
>   draw unitsquare scaled 72;
> \stopMPpage
>
> 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
>
> 1) two separate PDF's with each containing their own graphic
> 2) a single two page PDF where each page corresponds to the appropriate
> graphic.
>
> Of course, the "holy grail" would be to be able to "compile" a MetaPost
> source file with ConTeXt.
>
>
for 2)

save this in test.mkiv

\starttext
\startMPpage
  draw fullcircle scaled 72;
\stopMPpage

\startMPpage
  draw unitsquare scaled 72;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext

$>context test.mkiv
-- 
luigi

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Re: Standalone MetaPost Graphics from ConTeXt

[Aditya Mahajan]

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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Re: Standalone MetaPost Graphics from ConTeXt

[Troy Henderson]

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Thank you both!

Troy

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