Thanks. This is exactly what is needed. I feel myself somewhat silly, because I did try \scale, but with the wrong parameter setup; nothing happened then, of course. Now I know to do it right!
Hans van der Meer
On 7 May 2013, at 9:35 AM, Marco Patzer
On 2013–05–07 Meer, H. van der wrote:
Perhaps a better and possibly more elegant way seems the following route. When I turn Metapost figures into external pdf-files, these can be placed with \useexternalfigure and the scaled as a whole, drawing and text alike. My question is: can this be done without resorting to an external pdf? That is, can I pick up the result of \useMPgraphic somewhere, then put this in \useexternalfigure and apply everything possible there to the figure.
You could use \scale :
\startuseMPgraphic{foo} fill unitcircle scaled 1cm; label("Foo", origin); \stopuseMPgraphic
\starttext \useMPgraphic{foo} \scale[width=3cm] {\useMPgraphic{foo}} \scale[width=3cm,height=5cm] {\useMPgraphic{foo}} \scale[scale=2500] {\useMPgraphic{foo}} \stoptext
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