Peter Rolf schrieb:
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmakempy.pdf
(this should answer some of your questions). You find the needed tools at
Thank you for the pointer!
I have tested this some years ago and it worked without problems. A fast run with the old code ended in the nirvana for pstoedit (3.44) :(
I don't know if this is a general problem, so just give it a try.
Unfortunately, pstoedit seems to fail here, too. The following file input metafun beginfig(1); graphictext "Shaded text!" scaled 8 withdrawcolor .7blue withfillcolor .7white dashed evenly withpen pencircle scaled 2pt; endfig; end compiles fine with mpost, but hangs with a pstoedit process in the task manager taking up 100% CPU time.
If you get it to work, you can try the nice 'graphictext' in combination with 'withshade'.
This seems to be the way to go, currently. I'll try to file a bug report for pstoedit when I find the time. Best regards, Stephan Hennig