On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:15 AM Hilmar Preuße <hille42@web.de> wrote:
tags 480725 - patch
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On 15.05.08 09:49, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
> Norbert Preining wrote:

Dear Taco,

>> forwarded 480725 dev-context@ntg.nl
>> thanks
>>
>> Dear Hans, dear Taco,
>>
>> on the Debian side we got the attached bug report together with a patch
>> for mptopdf.pl. Can you comment on it, or consider it for inclusion?
>
The issue reported in https://bugs.debian.org/480725 is nevertheless
still present and reproducible. When pasting the following content into
a file called input.mp and calling "mptopdf input.mp" no pdf file is
created, just the intermediate ps file.

This needs to be handled.

> The patch would have to be a bit elaborated on before inclusion
> can be considered, I believe. A random file named <whatever>.ps
> is highly likely not to be metapost output at all. The extra
> functionality would be cool to have, but mptopdf had better check
> if the .ps really was created by metapost (by grepping for the
> %%Creator comment).
> 

Thank you for the report, we will try to fix it for the upcoming texlive 2019.

With texlive 2018 you can produce the pdf directly  

%% test.mp
input metauml;
beginfig(-1);
  Begin.b;
  End.e;
  e.w = b.e + (15,0);
  drawObjects(b,e);
  clink(transition)(b, e);
endfig;
end

$> mtxrun --script metapost --metafun test.mp


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luigi