I thought this would come with TeXlive or ConTeXt. It solved the problem obviously, sorry for not trying it before calling for help. Also, I removed "beginfig...endfig;" from the tex file. However, now I can only see "e mc". No "=" nor "2". Is there a special version of pstoedit to install? I got mine from http://www.helga-glunz.homepage.t-online.de/pstoedit/. -- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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Hi everybody,

I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is it still usable/valid feature?

I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp file and a tex file (which follows): \starttext \startMPcode input mp-grph ;

beginfig(1) ;   graphictext     "$e=mc^2$"     scaled 10     dashed evenly     withdrawcolor .7blue     withfillcolor .7white     withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; endfig ; \stopMPcode \stoptext

It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest.

do you have pstoedit installed?

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I tried some other text and it appears that it can display (some) maths, but no text. graphictext "something" scaled 10 withdrawcolor red withfillcolor green withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; doesn't work either. P.S. : I am sorry, I just noticed the object of the message does not start like the others. -- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:55, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

I forgot to mention that the spacing is correct though nothing appears (file included).

-- Cédric

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:53, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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I thought this would come with TeXlive or ConTeXt. It solved the problem obviously, sorry for not trying it before calling for help. Also, I removed "beginfig...endfig;" from the tex file.

However, now I can only see "e mc". No "=" nor "2". Is there a special version of pstoedit to install? I got mine from http://www.helga-glunz.homepage.t-online.de/pstoedit/.

-- Cédric

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 10:45, Hans Hagen wrote:

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On 17-8-2010 9:49, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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Hi everybody,

I tried to make a Metapost outline by following the mmakempy manual but it didn't work. As I saw that "makempy" and "makempy.bat" files were removed in 2010 (I don't remember the date), my question is: is it still usable/valid feature?

I processed the example from the manual, both from a standalone mp file and a tex file (which follows): \starttext \startMPcode input mp-grph ;

beginfig(1) ;   graphictext     "$e=mc^2$"     scaled 10     dashed evenly     withdrawcolor .7blue     withfillcolor .7white     withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; endfig ; \stopMPcode \stoptext

It sucessfully created the test-mpgraph.pdf with the text processed by TeX but the result page is blank, though it seems the "graphic" is on a line by itself (seen from another document where all the lines go down). When the mp file is processed with "mtxrun --script mptopdf", it warns of a width and height of less than 1in when it tries to convert from ps to pdf. When the tex file is processed with "mtxrun --script context", it complains that metapost had a problem flushing a literal and that it couldn't find pstoedit. Of course, this could be the problem, but I have no idea of how I could get around this. By the way, I use the TeXlive 2010 pretest.

do you have pstoedit installed?

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Thats what I figured out. I have the 3.50 version as it is the only I can build on my machine. All prior versions configure well but do not compile due to some dynload problem. (dynload.cpp:141:6: error: #elif with no expression). When I launch "pstoedit -f mpost", it only outputs the "e", "m" and "c". -- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 18:08, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 17-8-2010 10:53, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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\starttext

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 \startMPcode  input mp-grph ;

 beginfig(1) ;    graphictext      "$e=mc^2$"      scaled 10      dashed evenly      withdrawcolor .7blue      withfillcolor .7white      withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ;  endfig ;  \stopMPcode  \stoptext

looks like a bug in pstoedit as indeed the = and ^ are gone

Hans

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I think I will do that or investigate the dynload problem to get pstoedit 3.44 to work. Thanks a lot. -- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 18:12, Hans Hagen wrote:

Hi,

\starttext \startMPcode graphictext    "$e=mc^2$"    scaled 10    dashed evenly    withdrawcolor .7blue    withfillcolor .7white    withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; \stopMPcode \stoptext

there is a file *-mpgraph.pdf afterwards and that looks ok, but the mpy file has only three paths so it must be something in pstoedit (or gs)

you can consider sending the pdf file to the maintainer (or convince luigi to look into it as he knows gs well)

Hans

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Hi, As suggested by Hans, here is an archive with the tex file I used for the tests and the resulting "-mpgraph" PDF file (plus all the logs and stuff). It looks OK, but when I use "pstoedit -f mpost" (v3.50 with gs v8.70), only e, m and c from the formula are in the resulting metapost code. I will try with pstoedit v3.45 later today. I use ConTeXt (MkIV) from TeXlive 2010 pretest. If anyone has enough knowledge in gs and PDF files (Luigi?) and especially enough time, could you give it a look please? Thanks in advance. I will send the PDF to the author of pstoedit too. Thanks. -- Cédric On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 18:18, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 17-8-2010 6:15, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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I think I will do that or investigate the dynload problem to get pstoedit 3.44 to work.

or both -)

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On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 9:04 AM, Cedric Mauclair wrote:

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Hi,

As suggested by Hans, here is an archive with the tex file I used for the tests and the resulting "-mpgraph" PDF file (plus all the logs and stuff). It looks OK, but when I use "pstoedit -f mpost" (v3.50 with gs v8.70), only e, m and c from the formula are in the resulting metapost code. I will try with pstoedit v3.45 later today. I use ConTeXt (MkIV) from TeXlive 2010 pretest.

If anyone has enough knowledge in gs and PDF files (Luigi?) and especially enough time, could you give it a look please? Thanks in advance. I will send the PDF to the author of pstoedit too. #>texexec makempy.tex works ok under windows 7 and pstoedit 3.50 I've changed scaled 10 with scaled 5

\starttext \startMPcode  input mp-grph ;  graphictext    "MP $e=mc^2$ MP"    scaled  5    withdrawcolor .7blue    withfillcolor .7white    withpen pencircle scaled 2pt ; \stopMPcode \stoptext Well, actually I tried pstoedit 3.45 on Fedora and it works like a charm. So it do come from pstoedit v3.50. I still have to send the file to the autro though, but I don't have much time these days. I'll

On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 17:46, luigi scarso wrote: try to do it this week-end. Thanks for the answer. -- Cédric

For mkiv, I suspect that gs has some problems with pdfs made by context

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On 19-8-2010 6:25, luigi scarso wrote:

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Well, actually I tried pstoedit 3.45 on Fedora and it works like a charm.

and it also works under windows7 with mkii and mkiv

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