Hi, I'm trying to setup Metapost on my computer using Miktex (version 2.2.6) but when I try to execute mptopdf.pl I get the following error message: <snip> TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGME ADE 1997-2003 metapost : G:\metapost\height format : metafun initexmf: don't know how to dump metafun cannot make metafun.mem I can't found the feault mem file! total run time : 0 seconds MPtoPDF 1.2 : error while processing mp file </snip> I tried already different things (like changing paths) but nothing worked :(. How could I solve my problem? -- Best regards, Andreas mailto:anstei@ksk.ch
Andreas, First, type: texexec --make --alone and see what happens. Look in \localtexmf\miktex\fmt and check the dates of cont-en.efmt. Look for a newly updated metafun.mem file. If there is one there, move it to \localtexmf\miktex\mem. On some systems texexec --make --alone will dumpt the format files into the current directory. You must move them manually to the correct place: \localtexmf\miktex\fmt for format files, \localtexmf\miktex\mem for the metapost format files. Don't forget to refresh the filename database and make sure Yap is closed when you do so. At 05:28 PM 8/19/03 +0200, you wrote:
Hi,
I'm trying to setup Metapost on my computer using Miktex (version 2.2.6) but when I try to execute mptopdf.pl I get the following error message:
<snip> TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGME ADE 1997-2003
metapost : G:\metapost\height format : metafun initexmf: don't know how to dump metafun cannot make metafun.mem I can't found the feault mem file!
total run time : 0 seconds
MPtoPDF 1.2 : error while processing mp file </snip>
I tried already different things (like changing paths) but nothing worked :(. How could I solve my problem? -- Best regards, Andreas mailto:anstei@ksk.ch
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Hello David, Tuesday, August 19, 2003, 5:34:07 PM, you wrote: DA> Andreas, DA> First, type: DA> texexec --make --alone DA> and see what happens. Well, after about a minute of tons of lines i get another error message :(. <snip> loading : Context Support Macros / PDF ) ( \localtexmf\tex\context\base\supp-mpe.tex loading : Metapost Special Extensions ! Undefined control sequence. 1.537 \appendtoks </snip> These are the lines 530 to 546, I tried already do mark the specific lines as comment, but then other error messages appear. <snip> \def\stopMPshading {\global\advance\currentPDFshade \plusone \setxvalue{obj:Sh:\currentMPspecial}% {/Sh\the\currentPDFshade\space\the\pdflastobj\space0 R }% \setxvalue{mps:Sh:\currentMPspecial}% {\the\currentPDFshade}} \appendtoks \global\let\currentMPshades\empty \to \MPstartresources \appendtoks \ifx\currentMPshades\empty \else \xdef\currentPDFresources{\currentPDFresources /Shading <<\currentMPshades>>}% \fi \to \MPstopresources </snip> DA> Look in \localtexmf\miktex\fmt and check the dates of DA> cont-en.efmt. Look for a newly updated metafun.mem file. If there is one DA> there, move it to \localtexmf\miktex\mem. I can't find neither cont-en.efmt nor metafun.mem on my harddisk, might it be there went something wrong during the installation? -- Best regards, Andreas Steiger mailto:anstei@ksk.ch
Andreas Steiger
Well, after about a minute of tons of lines i get another error message :(.
could you please run texexec --make --alone mptopdf and post the resulting logfile? [...]
I can't find neither cont-en.efmt nor metafun.mem on my harddisk, might it be there went something wrong during the installation?
cont-en.efmt and metafun.mem are not shipped with ConTeXt. These should be generated during installation. How did you install ConTeXt? Patrick -- Silent is the goldfish in its bowl
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