On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 9:15 AM Hilmar Preuße <hill...@web.de> wrote:
> tags 480725 - patch > stop > > > On 15.05.08 09:49, Taco Hoekwater wrote: > > Norbert Preining wrote: > > Dear Taco, > > >> forwarded 480725 dev-cont...@ntg.nl > >> thanks > >> > >> Dear Hans, dear Taco, > >> > >> on the Debian side we got the attached bug report together with a patch > >> for mptopdf.pl. Can you comment on it, or consider it for inclusion? > > > The issue reported in https://bugs.debian.org/480725 is nevertheless > still present and reproducible. When pasting the following content into > a file called input.mp and calling "mptopdf input.mp" no pdf file is > created, just the intermediate ps file. > > This needs to be handled. > > > The patch would have to be a bit elaborated on before inclusion > > can be considered, I believe. A random file named <whatever>.ps > > is highly likely not to be metapost output at all. The extra > > functionality would be cool to have, but mptopdf had better check > > if the .ps really was created by metapost (by grepping for the > > %%Creator comment). > > > Thank you for the report, we will try to fix it for the upcoming texlive 2019. With texlive 2018 you can produce the pdf directly %% test.mp input metauml; beginfig(-1); Begin.b; End.e; e.w = b.e + (15,0); drawObjects(b,e); clink(transition)(b, e); endfig; end $> mtxrun --script metapost --metafun test.mp -- luigi
