xsized was the solution.
I wonder why xscaled worked for me for years.
Thanks for the fast help.
Lutz
Am 2. Oktober 2018 11:10:04 MESZ schrieb Hans Hagen
On 10/2/2018 7:03 AM, Lutz Haseloff wrote:
Hi Hans, hi all,
I think, that recent context has a problem with scaling included pdf files. My minimal file:
\startMPpage draw externalfigure "cow.pdf" ; \stopMPpage
The resulting pdf is, as the original, 97x70.6 mm, all ok.
If I try to scale to the original size, i get arithmetic overflow error.
\startMPpage draw externalfigure "cow.pdf" xscaled 97mm yscaled 70.6mm ; \stopMPpage don't use xscaled, use xsized
if you have
path p ; p := fullcircls scaled 1cm ;
and then do
draw p xscaled 97pt ;
you multiply with a number and only get 97pt width when your p has 1 bp
width
externalfigure has the original dimensions (so no width 1 bp here)
Hans
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