Thanks Hans for the advice. I use a mac-mini and it seems that mupdf, of which mutools is part off, does not have a macOS version, or I would have to build from source. However it looks like I can use Inkscape with a wee bit thought to do pretty much the same. Thanks again for your help. Keith On 05/04/2018 13:39, Hans Hagen wrote:

On 4/5/2018 1:10 PM, Keith McKay wrote:

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Dear Readers,

I have been playing about with METAFUN over the last few days trying to get a feel for it. I was wondering if it is possible to save the graphics produced in a context document for use outside. On looking at the Metapost manual I see you can using the following commands save a graphic as an svg file.

forget about producing svg this way ... (1) it would not work with fonts, and (2) mplib in luatex has svg and png output disabled.

% file: mpsvg.tex

\startMPpage

    draw textext("Does it work?") ;

    draw boundingbox currentpicture enlarged 2mm withcolor "darkred" ;

\stopMPpage

% process

context mpsvg

mutool convert -o mpsvg.svg mpsvg.pdf

Hans

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On 05/04/2018 18:24, Alan Braslau wrote:

On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 15:28:34 +0100 Keith McKay wrote:

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I use a mac-mini and it seems that mupdf, of which mutools is part off, does not have a macOS version, or I would have to build from source. However it looks like I can use Inkscape with a wee bit thought to do pretty much the same.

mupdf is available on MacPorts...

...also in Homebrew (mupdf formula, or mupdf-tools if you don't need the viewer). Nicola

Maybe this script could help a bit too. Use with following code scheme in ConTeXt: \starttex t\startMPpage % Your Metapost/metafun code here \stopMPpage \stoptext It will produce a standalone image in a pdf. dr. Hans van der Meer

On 5 Apr 2018, at 18:45, Keith McKay wrote:

Thanks Nicola and Alan. I'll look into that.

Best Wishes

Keith

On 05/04/2018 17:42, Nicola wrote:

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On 05/04/2018 18:24, Alan Braslau wrote:

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On Thu, 5 Apr 2018 15:28:34 +0100 Keith McKay mailto:mckaymeister@gmail.com wrote:

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I use a mac-mini and it seems that mupdf, of which mutools is part off, does not have a macOS version, or I would have to build from source. However it looks like I can use Inkscape with a wee bit thought to do pretty much the same.

mupdf is available on MacPorts...

...also in Homebrew (mupdf formula, or mupdf-tools if you don't need the viewer).

Nicola

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