On 3/25/07, nicola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
> some time ago I needed to include a png file into a MetaPost picture and
> I did it with the MetaFun macro externalfigure. I compiled the code with
> mptopdf and the result was fine. Since I had no previous experience with
> it, my code used LaTeX, not ConTeXt, for the labels.
>
> I have recently updated my distributions (TeX Live 2007 and gwTeX on Mac
> OS X) and the same code does not work any longer in either distribution.
> A minimal example reproducing the problem is as follows:
>
> verbatimtex
> %&latex
> \documentclass{article}
> \begin{document}
> etex
>
> beginfig(0);
> externalfigure "pic.png" scaled 15mm shifted origin;
> label.bot(btex $x$ etex, origin);
> endfig;
> end;
>
> The error mptopdf gives is:
>
> ! Undefined control sequence.
> l.44 \documentclass
> {article}
>
hmm, try
%%%% save this in test.tex %%%%%%%%%%%%%%5
\starttext
\startuniqueMPgraphic{foo}
externalfigure "pic.png" scaled 15mm shifted origin;
label.bot(btex $x$ etex, origin);%
\stopuniqueMPgraphic
\uniqueMPgraphic{foo}
\stoptext
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
$>texmfstart texexec --pdf test.tex
Variant
\starttext
\startTEXpage
\startuniqueMPgraphic{foo}
externalfigure "pic.png" scaled 15mm shifted origin;
label.bot(btex $x$ etex, origin);%
\stopuniqueMPgraphic
\uniqueMPgraphic{foo}
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext
luigi
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