[metapost] MPEdit ULcorner of drawing

Stephan Hennig mailing_list at arcor.de
Sat Oct 15 23:43:29 CEST 2011


schrieb Lei Willems:

> When I make a drawing then my ULcorner of this drawing is printed  at
> approximately at (50mm, -50mm) of my A4 sheet, if my ULcorner of the
> A4 sheet is at (0mm,0mm).  So there is an empty space of 5 cm at the
> left and at the top of my sheet of paper. I can shift this position
> in gsview.exe but e.g. NOT in yap.exe of Christian Schenk , or with
> other output devices. Who is responsible for this: is it metapost  or
> some (unknown to me) statement.

Does setting variable prologues to 2 or 3 as discussed in sec. 14.2 in
the MetaPost manual make Yap happy?  Are proof sheets as discussed in
the same section an option for previewing?

Best regards,
Stephan Hennig


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