On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 9:47 AM, Hans Hagen
Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
Hi,
I make a hole in a MetaPost graphic and add a graphic as background but in MkIV I get no hole but the lines I try to remove are still visible.
All files with the two results from MkII (what I want) and MkIV are in the attachment.
\starttext
\startMPcode
picture temp ; path mask ;
draw (0,1cm)--(2cm,1cm) ; draw (1cm,0)--(1cm,2cm) ;
temp := currentpicture ; currentpicture := nullpicture ; mask := unitsquare scaled 2cm -- reverse fullsquare scaled 1cm shifted (1cm,1cm) -- cycle ; clip temp to mask ; currentpicture := temp ; draw fullsquare scaled 5mm shifted (1cm,1cm) ;
temp := currentpicture ; currentpicture := nullpicture ; externalfigure "holz280.jpg" scaled 2cm ; addto currentpicture also temp ;
\stopMPcode
\stoptext
i have no clue (nor time to look into it in detail) but this seems to work ok:
% engine=luatex interface=en
\starttext
\startMPpage externalfigure "cow.pdf" scaled 2cm ; clip currentpicture to boundingbox currentpicture -- reverse unitsquare scaled 1cm shifted (.5cm,.5cm) -- cycle ; \stopMPpage
\stoptext
it works witk minimals-beta This is LuaTeX, Version snapshot-0.30.2-2008102016, build unknown ConTeXt ver: 2008.10.30 08:50 MKIV fmt: 2008.10.30 int: english/english -- luigi