On 9/7/2019 10:47 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Bear with me, I still got no experience in MetaPost…

I’m trying to place a pixel image on a MP page.

According to the MetaFun manual this should work:

\startMPpage draw externalfigure "mill.png" scaled 5cm shifted (-6cm,0) ; \stopMPpage

And it works with mill.png (copied into my test dir), but with none of my other PNGs, I always get

! Arithmetic overflow. <*> ...xternalfigure "dodo.png" scaled 5cm shifted (-6cm,0) ; ; Uh, oh. A little while ago one of the quantities that I was computing got too large, so I'm afraid your answers will be somewhat askew. You'll probably have to adopt different tactics next time. But I shall try to carry on anyway.

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1 \startMPpage

[instance=doublefun] will bump metapost into doublemode

2 draw externalfigure "dodo.png" scaled 5cm shifted (-6cm,0) ; 3 >> \stopMPpage 4

The same image file works with

\starttext \externalfigure[dodo][height=8cm] \stoptext

What’s wrong?

The image is here: https://github.com/fiee/ConTeXt/raw/master/tshirts/img/dodo.png

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