[NTG-context] LinearShade trouble

2011-03-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear ConTeXt list,

I have been having troubles with LinearShade with ConTeXt for quite a
while, even with the latest version.

Steps to reproduce:
There is a test.tex at the bottom of this e-mail:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580447#5

Copy paste it into the ConTeXt Live interface at the ConTeXt
Garden. Result is blank.

But what I expect (produced with an ancient version of ConTeXt, Debian
version 2008.05.21-1):

http://people.debian.org/~akumar/dump/test_expected.pdf

Could you please let me know where things are going wrong? The mail
has the log files attached.

Thanks.

Kumar
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Re: [NTG-context] LinearShade trouble

2011-03-30 Thread Hans Hagen

On 30-3-2011 8:38, Kumar Appaiah wrote:


I have been having troubles with LinearShade with ConTeXt for quite a
while, even with the latest version.

Steps to reproduce:
There is a test.tex at the bottom of this e-mail:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580447#5

Copy paste it into the ConTeXt Live interface at the ConTeXt
Garden. Result is blank.


best post the minimal example here and tell us what version you run; the 
benchmark is context mkiv as of today (not much has changed in mkii anyway)


Hans

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Re: [NTG-context] LinearShade trouble

2011-03-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
Dear Hans,

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 08:48:15AM +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
 I have been having troubles with LinearShade with ConTeXt for quite a
 while, even with the latest version.
 
 Steps to reproduce:
 There is a test.tex at the bottom of this e-mail:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580447#5
 
 Copy paste it into the ConTeXt Live interface at the ConTeXt
 Garden. Result is blank.
 
 best post the minimal example here and tell us what version you run;
 the benchmark is context mkiv as of today (not much has changed in
 mkii anyway)

Thanks. Here's the code:

file
\setuppapersize[S6][S6]
\setuppagenumbering[state=stop]
\switchtobodyfont[modern,20pt]
\setupcolors[state=start]
\setupbackgrounds[page][background=color,backgroundcolor=darkblue]
\startcolor[white]
\setuptolerance[verytolerant,stretch] 
\definecolor[a][r=0,g=0,b=1]
\definecolor[b][r=0,g=0,b=0.05]

\startuniqueMPgraphic{LinearShade}
path p ;
p := unitsquare xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight ;
linear_shade(p,6,\MPcolor{a},\MPcolor{b}) ;
\stopuniqueMPgraphic

\defineoverlay[shaded][\useMPgraphic{LinearShade}]

\setupbackgrounds[page][background={shaded}]
\starttext

Here's my first presentation in \CONTEXT!

Isn't it amazing?

\stoptext
/file

This is from an old ConTeXt example I copied from your documentation
(I don't recall exactly).

Thanks!

Kumar
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Re: [NTG-context] LinearShade trouble

2011-03-30 Thread Marco
On 2011-03-30 Kumar Appaiah a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in wrote:

 Dear ConTeXt list,
 
 I have been having troubles with LinearShade with ConTeXt for quite a
 while, even with the latest version.
 
 Steps to reproduce:
 There is a test.tex at the bottom of this e-mail:
 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580447#5
 
 Copy paste it into the ConTeXt Live interface at the ConTeXt
 Garden. Result is blank.
 
 But what I expect (produced with an ancient version of ConTeXt, Debian
 version 2008.05.21-1):
 
 http://people.debian.org/~akumar/dump/test_expected.pdf
 
 Could you please let me know where things are going
 wrong? The mail has the log files attached.

You have a problem with metapost not being run. Search the
contextgarden for write18 for the solution.

BTW: You cannot use the contextgarden to check if you code
is working. The same restrictions as on your system apply.
Consider using mkiv as Hans suggested.

Marco


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Re: [NTG-context] LinearShade trouble

2011-03-30 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 09:04:41AM +0200, Marco wrote:
  There is a test.tex at the bottom of this e-mail:
  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=580447#5
  
  Copy paste it into the ConTeXt Live interface at the ConTeXt
  Garden. Result is blank.
  
  But what I expect (produced with an ancient version of ConTeXt, Debian
  version 2008.05.21-1):
  
  http://people.debian.org/~akumar/dump/test_expected.pdf
  
  Could you please let me know where things are going
  wrong? The mail has the log files attached.
 
 You have a problem with metapost not being run. Search the
 contextgarden for write18 for the solution.
 
 BTW: You cannot use the contextgarden to check if you code
 is working. The same restrictions as on your system apply.
 Consider using mkiv as Hans suggested.

Indeed, this was the solution. I added metafun to
shell_escape_commands, and that did the trick!

Thanks!

Kumar
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