Thanks Taco!

I have been playing about with an example from this site

https://tex.loria.fr/prod-graph/zoonekynd/metapost/metapost.html

which was originally for a square and I obviously didn't get my angles right. Thanks for spotting it. I'm beginning to appreciate where the Fun in MetaFun comes from.

Best Wishes

Keith

On 15/08/2020 18:35, Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Hi Keith,

It took me a while before I saw it, but I think you wanted to type in

   z0 = (60,60);
   z1 = z0 rotated 120;
   z2 = z0 rotated 240;

instead of

   z0 = (60,60);
   z1 = z0 rotated 120;
   z2 = z1 rotated 240;

because the latter puts z2 at z0, resulting in a path that is a straight line. The 
fact that AR displays anything at all is probably some form of correction like 
"fill of empty path == single pixel line”.

Best wishes,
Taco

On 15 Aug 2020, at 17:39, Keith McKay <mckaymeis...@gmail.com> wrote:

Dear List

I have come across a problem which I don't think is due to ConTeXt but I'm 
hopping the great and the good of this list may be able to explain what is 
going on.

The code below produces an MPpage with a shaded background and two graphics 
along with a line of outlined text. When I view in Adobe (or the output from 
TeXworks) I see everything as it should be. However, I wanted to convert the 
MPpage to a jpeg file and when I opened the pdf in either Apple MAC Preview or 
Gimp 2.10 the two graphics are missing, and I have no idea why.

Could someone explain a way round this?  Here is the code.

Thanks

Keith

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
system          >

system          > ConTeXt  ver: 2020.07.29 18:36 LMTX  fmt: 2020.7.29  int: 
english/english
system          >

%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%


\setuppapersize [A5, portrait]
\usecolors[crayola]
\starttext
\startMPpage
StartPage;
width := PaperWidth ; height := PaperHeight ; unit := cm ;
definecolor [ name = "MyColor1", r = 0.781, g = 0.5, b = 0.5 ] ;
definecolor [ name = "MyColor3", r = 1, g = 1, b = 0.7983 ] ;
draw lmt_shade [
path = unitsquare xscaled 14.8cm yscaled 21cm,
direction = "up",
alternative = "linear",
colors = { "MyColor1", "MyColor3" },
] ;
z0 = (60,60);
   z1 = z0 rotated 120;
   z2 = z1 rotated 240;
   path carre;
   carre = z0--z1--z2--cycle;
   picture pic;
   pic := image(
  numeric d; d := 0.0005;
  for i=1 step -d until d:
        fill carre scaled i shifted (3.9cm,17cm) withcolor((1 + 
i)*(\MPcolor{VividTangerine})) ;
        fill carre rotated (45) scaled i shifted (3.9cm,17cm)  withcolor((1 + 
i)*(\MPcolor{VividTangerine})) ;
        fill carre rotated (90) scaled i shifted (3.9cm,17cm)  withcolor((1 + 
i)*(\MPcolor{VividTangerine})) ;
        fill carre rotated (135) scaled i shifted (3.9cm,17cm)  withcolor((1 + 
i)*(\MPcolor{VividTangerine})) ;
        fill carre rotated (180) scaled i shifted (3.9cm,17cm)  withcolor((1 + 
i)*(\MPcolor{VividTangerine})) ;
        fill carre rotated (225) scaled i shifted (3.9cm,17cm)  withcolor((1 + 
i)*(\MPcolor{VividTangerine})) ;
endfor;);
draw pic rotatedaround(center pic, 270);
draw pic rotatedaround(center pic, 90) shifted (7cm,-13cm) ;
draw lmt_outline [
text = "Page 18"
kind = "draw",
drawcolor = "VividTangerine",
] xsized TextWidth shifted (1cm,7.67cm);
StopPage;
\stopMPpage
\stoptext
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