Thanks. This is exactly what is needed. I feel myself somewhat silly, because I
did try \scale, but with the wrong parameter setup; nothing happened then, of
course. Now I know to do it right!
Hans van der Meer
On 7 May 2013, at 9:35 AM, Marco Patzer <home...@lavabit.com>
wrote:
> On 2013–05–07 Meer, H. van der wrote:
>
>> Perhaps a better and possibly more elegant way seems the following
>> route. When I turn Metapost figures into external pdf-files, these
>> can be placed with \useexternalfigure and the scaled as a whole,
>> drawing and text alike. My question is: can this be done without
>> resorting to an external pdf? That is, can I pick up the result of
>> \useMPgraphic somewhere, then put this in \useexternalfigure and
>> apply everything possible there to the figure.
>
> You could use \scale :
>
> \startuseMPgraphic{foo}
> fill unitcircle scaled 1cm;
> label("Foo", origin);
> \stopuseMPgraphic
>
> \starttext
> \useMPgraphic{foo}
> \scale[width=3cm] {\useMPgraphic{foo}}
> \scale[width=3cm,height=5cm] {\useMPgraphic{foo}}
> \scale[scale=2500] {\useMPgraphic{foo}}
> \stoptext
>
> Marco
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