[pdftex] Metapost

[Robin Barker]

> 
> What is the best way to incorporate Metapost in pdftex? I am having 
> problems with bounding boxes:  I put a frame around the Metapost generated 
> ESP file and sometimes the side of a frame is clipped.  Also the resolution 
> is not very good as compared to using Latex with dvips driver.  Is there a 
> switch to create high resolution graphics?  Is there something missing with 
> my understanding?  Any help will be greatly appreciated.  Thanks in advance.
> 
> John S. Dey
> 

It is done by magic.  The graphicx package converts metapost postscript files
to PDF (it can do this because the output of mpost is sufficiently simple PS).

This is the recipe:

Input metapost file:  foo.mp

% mpost foo
creating foo.1 foo.2 etc.

In the latex file foo.tex
 	\usepackage{graphicx}
	...
	\includegraphics[type=mps]{foo.1}

% pdflatex foo


Robin

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