<html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div>At first glance it looks good, thank you. The documentation says it uses `special' commands in MP. That's what I was looking for in the MP manual but I had forgotten what it was called so my searches didn't turn anything up. Using exteps would probably be easier for me, since I don't know PS.</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 18. Mai 2023 um 15:41 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "ALFREDO DE JESUS NAVARRO ROBLES" <navarro@us.es><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Laurence.Finston@gmx.net" <Laurence.Finston@gmx.net>, "metapost@tug.org" <metapost@tug.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [metapost] Including graphics in MP</div>
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<div class="elementToProof" style="font-family: Calibri , Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 12.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);">Perhaps it is this what you are looking for?</div>
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<div class="elementToProof ContentPasted1" style="font-family: Calibri , Arial , Helvetica , sans-serif;font-size: 12.0pt;color: rgb(0,0,0);"><a href="https://www.ctan.org/pkg/exteps" id="LPlnk793570" target="_blank">https://www.ctan.org/pkg/exteps</a></div>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size: 11.0pt;"><b>De:</b> metapost <metapost-bounces+navarro=us.es@tug.org> en nombre de Laurence.Finston@gmx.net <Laurence.Finston@gmx.net><br/>
<b>Enviado:</b> jueves, 18 de mayo de 2023 10:31<br/>
<b>Para:</b> metapost@tug.org <metapost@tug.org><br/>
<b>Asunto:</b> [metapost] Including graphics in MP</font>
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<div class="PlainText"><font size="2"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Hello,<br/>
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Is it possible to include PostScript graphics, or literal PostScript in general, in MP files?<br/>
The purpose is to composite multiple images with correct alignment.<br/>
It's possible to do this in TeX (see below), but it would be nice to be able to do this directly in MP.<br/>
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I've determined that this doesn't work:<br/>
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%prologues := 3;<br/>
%outputtemplate := "%j_%c.ps";<br/>
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outputformat:="png";<br/>
outputformatoptions:="format=rgb antialias=none";<br/>
outputtemplate := "%j_%c.png";<br/>
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verbatimtex \input epsf etex;<br/>
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path q[];<br/>
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beginfig(1);<br/>
q0 = (unitsquare scaled 2cm) shifted (-1cm, -1cm);<br/>
draw q0 withpen pencircle scaled .333mm;<br/>
label(btex \vbox{\hbox{\epsffile{testdot1.eps}}} etex, origin);<br/>
endfig;<br/>
end;<br/>
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It fails silently and the resulting PNG file is just a white square (see attachment). It doesn't work with EPS output, either.<br/>
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It does work to do this in TeX:<br/>
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\input epsf<br/>
\parindent=0pt<br/>
\parskip=0pt<br/>
\baselineskip=0pt<br/>
\advance\hoffset by -1in<br/>
\advance\voffset by -1in<br/>
\nopagenumbers<br/>
\def\epsfsize#1#2{#1}<br/>
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\vbox to 0pt{\vskip2cm\hbox to 0pt{\hskip1cm<br/>
\epsffile{testdot1.eps}\hss}\vss}<br/>
\vbox to 0pt{\vskip2cm<br/>
\hbox to 0pt{\hskip1cm\epsffile{testdot2.eps}\hss}\vss}<br/>
\vfil\eject<br/>
\bye<br/>
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The result is in `testinclude.pdf' (attached).<br/>
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Any help would be much appreciated.<br/>
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Laurence Finston</span></font><br/>
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