Re: [NTG-context] Scale image in MetaPost, maintaining aspect ratio

8 Jul 2018


      On 7/8/2018 1:45 AM, Marco Patzer wrote:
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On Sat, 7 Jul 2018 14:27:38 -0600
Alan Braslau  wrote:
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For "historic" reasons,
     draw externalfigure "cow" scaled 5cm ;
normalizes the figure to a square. This will not be changed as it is a
very old feature of MetaFun.
The solution is
     draw rawtextext("\externalfigure[cow]") xsized 5cm ;
where one can use xsized, ysized or xysized (taking a pair).
That works indeed. Thanks.
draw figure "...." ...
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