Drawing scaled externalfigure in Metapost produces erroneous size in the latest beta

Drawing scaled externalfigure in Metapost produces erroneous size in the latest beta

[Thorsten S.]

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Hello!

The simple Metapost code that follows worked fine until upgrading to recent beta. I don't have a clue exactly when this behaviour was introduced since I switched just recently from the standard Texlive version available in Arch Linux.

\starttext
\startMPcode
draw externalfigure "test.pdf" scaled 10mm;
\stopMPcode
\stoptext

Now it produces a graphic with size of approximately 110 mm at least in my system with various test files which previously scaled just fine.. Any help is greatly appreciated.

-Thorsten S.

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Re: Drawing scaled externalfigure in Metapost produces erroneous size in the latest beta

[Hans Hagen]

On 4/4/2019 1:31 AM, Thorsten S. wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> The simple Metapost code that follows worked fine until upgrading to 
> recent beta. I don't have a clue exactly when this behaviour was 
> introduced since I switched just recently from the standard Texlive 
> version available in Arch Linux.
> 
> \starttext
> \startMPcode
> draw externalfigure "test.pdf" scaled 10mm;
> \stopMPcode
> \stoptext
> 
> Now it produces a graphic with size of approximately 110 mm at least in 
> my system with various test files which previously scaled just fine.. 
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
scaled scaled the original size ... long ago that was 1bp but for 
accuracy reasons that is no longer the case, just use:

draw externalfigure "test.pdf" xsized 10mm;

which in most cases is actually a better method than 'scaled'

Hans

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Re: *** Spam *** Drawing scaled externalfigure in Metapost produces erroneous size in the latest beta

[Lutz Haseloff]

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Hi Thorsten,

I had the same problem a couple of months ago.
Use sized instead of scaled now.
The same goes for xscaled and yscaled.

Greetings Lutz

Am 4. April 2019 01:31:29 MESZ schrieb "Thorsten S." <thorsten1975@protonmail.com>:
>Hello!
>
>The simple Metapost code that follows worked fine until upgrading to
>recent beta. I don't have a clue exactly when this behaviour was
>introduced since I switched just recently from the standard Texlive
>version available in Arch Linux.
>
>\starttext
>\startMPcode
>draw externalfigure "test.pdf" scaled 10mm;
>\stopMPcode
>\stoptext
>
>Now it produces a graphic with size of approximately 110 mm at least in
>my system with various test files which previously scaled just fine..
>Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
>-Thorsten S.

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