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From: "Patrick Gundlach" <patrick@gundla.ch>
Subject: Re: externalfigure
Date: 13 Sep 2004 21:49:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2sm9m54ql.fsf@levana.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <w4u4qm2pe3d.fsf@nue.tu-berlin.de> (Jan-Mark Batke's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:07:02 +0200")

Hello Jan-Mark,

> using mptopdf 
>
> externalfigure "nue-logo-1.jpg" scaled 10;
>
> results in a figure  that doesn't retain the original image
> ratio. 

[...]

I don't think it is possible. As far as I can see, the externalfigure
command just includes a reference to the figure and metapost never
touches (reads) the picture, only the next step (mptopdf) does. So
metapost has no idea of the image attributes.


Patrick

(Standard disclaimer: usually, when I write something like this, Hans
posts a followup with some yet unknown tricks.)
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-13 19:49 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-13 12:07 externalfigure Jan-Mark Batke
2004-09-13 19:49 ` Patrick Gundlach [this message]
2004-09-13 20:24   ` externalfigure Vit Zyka
2004-09-13 22:39     ` externalfigure Patrick Gundlach
2004-09-14  8:36       ` externalfigure Hans Hagen
2004-09-15 18:39         ` space in \inmargin Martin Kolarík
2004-09-16  7:41           ` Hans Hagen
2004-09-14 11:02       ` Re: externalfigure Vit Zyka
2004-09-15 21:31         ` Jan-Mark Batke

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