[metapost] how to use mpstoeps on a Windows machine

Taco Hoekwater taco at elvenkind.com
Sun Nov 29 11:12:18 CET 2009


Yogeshwarsing Calleecharan wrote:
> Hi, I'll answer your questions:
> 
> 1. What do you mean? No output? 

> I don't get any EPS file. When I run
> mpost on my file myfig.mp, I get myfig.2 (the number at the end
> varies as you know). So I don't get any EPS file generated. Setting
> the prologues:=3 doesn't seem to generate the EPS file.

It does in fact create eps, but it still uses the default naming
scheme. To prevent having to rename the output figures, add

   outputtemplate:="%j-%c.eps";

to the metapost source.


> 2. Is there an error message? 

> No, nothing at all. I tried just to run

In that case, I can't help with that, sorry.

Best wishes,
Taco


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