[OS X TeX] mfpic and conversion MP to PDF

[Claus Gerhardt]

The entries in the log are standard and only indicate that the  
graphics have been found and loaded. Either your computer is very  
slow or there is some unknown snafu.

When I use mfpic the graphics are loaded on the fly.

Claus

On Mar 15, 2006, at 15:20, ¿istein ANDERSEN wrote:

>
> On 15 Mar 2006, at 1:45PM, Franck Pastor wrote:
>
>> Le 15-mars-06 à 14:34, Œistein ANDERSEN a écrit :
>
>>> Is there an easy/elegant way to do [the MP to PDF] conversion  
>>> [occuring with mfpic] once and for all [...]?
>
>> To avoid conversion in PDF, go to the preferences of TeXShop,  
>> section "misc" [...] and under the subsection
>> Metapost, choose "mpost" instead of "mptopdf". Mfpic keeps working  
>> well with Metapost without mptopdf.
>
> Merci d'avoir répondu si vite !
>
> Unfortunately, this does not seem to change anything for me, but  
> maybe the problem lies elsewhere. This is what I am doing now:
>
> 	1) invoke pdfLaTeX from inside TeXShop, which creates the file  
> myfigs.mp
> 	2) invoke mpost mfigs from the terminal, which creates the files  
> myfig.n,  n = 1, ..., N
> 	3) invoke pdfLaTeX from inside TeXShop again
>
> When the files myfig.n do not yet exist, LaTeX runs quite fast;  
> after they have been created, a considerable amount of time is used  
> to process the figures: The console shows `[MP
> to PDF] (./myfigs.n' and pauses for several seconds before  
> outputting `)' and continuing.
>
> I do not quite know what to make of this.
>
> -- 
> Øistein E. Andersen
>
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