Drawing scaled externalfigure in Metapost produces erroneous size in the latest beta
Hello! The simple Metapost code that follows worked fine until upgrading to recent beta. I don't have a clue exactly when this behaviour was introduced since I switched just recently from the standard Texlive version available in Arch Linux. \starttext \startMPcode draw externalfigure "test.pdf" scaled 10mm; \stopMPcode \stoptext Now it produces a graphic with size of approximately 110 mm at least in my system with various test files which previously scaled just fine.. Any help is greatly appreciated. -Thorsten S.
On 4/4/2019 1:31 AM, Thorsten S. wrote:
Hello!
The simple Metapost code that follows worked fine until upgrading to recent beta. I don't have a clue exactly when this behaviour was introduced since I switched just recently from the standard Texlive version available in Arch Linux.
\starttext \startMPcode draw externalfigure "test.pdf" scaled 10mm; \stopMPcode \stoptext
Now it produces a graphic with size of approximately 110 mm at least in my system with various test files which previously scaled just fine.. Any help is greatly appreciated. scaled scaled the original size ... long ago that was 1bp but for accuracy reasons that is no longer the case, just use:
draw externalfigure "test.pdf" xsized 10mm; which in most cases is actually a better method than 'scaled' Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | www.pragma-ade.nl | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hi Thorsten,
I had the same problem a couple of months ago.
Use sized instead of scaled now.
The same goes for xscaled and yscaled.
Greetings Lutz
Am 4. April 2019 01:31:29 MESZ schrieb "Thorsten S."
Hello!
The simple Metapost code that follows worked fine until upgrading to recent beta. I don't have a clue exactly when this behaviour was introduced since I switched just recently from the standard Texlive version available in Arch Linux.
\starttext \startMPcode draw externalfigure "test.pdf" scaled 10mm; \stopMPcode \stoptext
Now it produces a graphic with size of approximately 110 mm at least in my system with various test files which previously scaled just fine.. Any help is greatly appreciated.
-Thorsten S.
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