From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/16424 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Patrick Gundlach" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: externalfigure Date: 13 Sep 2004 21:49:22 +0200 Organization: chaos Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Message-ID: References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1095105585 25915 80.91.229.6 (13 Sep 2004 19:59:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 19:59:45 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Sep 13 21:59:32 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1C6wsI-0004bx-00 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:52:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69DA41278F; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:52:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26004-07; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:52:30 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D4A312788; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:49:07 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A898912788 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:49:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 26004-05-2 for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:49:05 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from lilly.ping.de (unknown [83.97.42.2]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 009711277A for ; Mon, 13 Sep 2004 21:49:04 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail 5463 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2004 19:49:04 -0000 Original-Received: (ofmipd 83.97.40.205); 13 Sep 2004 19:48:42 -0000 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Lieblings-Musik: the_capricorns In-Reply-To: (Jan-Mark Batke's message of "Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:07:02 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) Emacs/21.3.50 (darwin) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:16424 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:16424 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.) -- ConTeXt wiki: http://contextgarden.net texshow-web: http://texshow.contextgarden.net List archive: http://archive.contextgarden.net