[metapost] Stroke Font

[Hans Hagen]

On 5/17/2015 1:23 AM, Troy Henderson wrote:
>     \starttext
>
>          \startMPpage
>              graphictext("\input zapf\relax")
>                  withfillcolor red
>                  withdrawcolor blue
>                  withpen pencircle scaled 1pt ;
>          \stopMPpage
>
>          \startTEXpage
>              \startoverlay
>                  {\framed
>                      [align=normal,foregroundcolor=red]
>                      {\starteffect[inner]\input zapf\relax\stopeffect}}
>                  {\framed
>                      [align=normal,foregroundcolor=blue]
>                      {\starteffect[outer]\input zapf\relax\stopeffect}}
>              \stopoverlay
>          \stopTEXpage
>
>     \stoptext
>
>
> I get a two page PDF (see attachment) where the first (MP) page is blank
> but the second (TeX) page is as expected.  Since I am wanting a MetaPost
> solution, I would prefer the blank page be non-blank. :-)

you need to install pstoedit

Hans

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