Re: [PyX-devel] Another geometry version

[Magnus L. H. <ma...@he...>]

Andre Wobst <wo...@us...>:
>
> Hi,
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> On 28.07.04, Magnus Lie Hetland wrote:
> > (Also, it's nice to be able to use the output from MetaPost directly
> > in pdflatex without a hickup; if PyX could restrict itself to the sam=
e
> > subset of EPS, possibly with a switch, such as mps=3DTrue or somethin=
g,
> > that would be very nice :})
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> We'll probably support direct PDF output much sooner. Next week? No,
> probably not. But within a few month I (and J=F6rg) should find some
> time to finish it. Originally I thought about having this for 0.7
> already. I'm not that sure whether we can make that. 0.7 needs to be
> release on not to far future ...

One solution would be to use epstopdf or something externally; you
already do this sort of thing with TeX, so... (I've used this solution
in my own programs.)

> Andr=E9
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> PS: <sarcasm> Isn't MetaPost always a hickup? It does not even produce
> viewable/printable files (i.e. embedding the fonts it uses). </sarcasm>

Heh. I only use it together with pdflatex, and then it works
wonderfully.

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