makempy (1) Linux Manual Page

NAME

makempy – convert PDF or PostScript text to MetaPost graphics

SYNOPSIS

makempy filenam

DESCRIPTION

makempy takes MetaPost output files (*.mpo) and translates them to *.mpy files. In order to include text as a graphic into a file typeset with (Con)TeX(t), you extract the text from Postscript of PDF files using pdftops(1) and pstoedit(1), creating a Metapost input file.

This file can then be processed by makempy. The makempy script does its work without user intervention. When it deduces that there are no changes, it does not do anything; otherwise it reports its steps and any errors.

OPTIONS

–help

print basic usage information

–silent

don’t report status messages

–force

always process the file (no checksum test)

–noclean

don’t remove temporary files when finished

–pdftops

use pdftops(1), part of the xpdf(1) programs, to convert PDF to PostScript

–ghostscript

use GhostScript (see pdf2ps(1)) to convert PDF to PostScript

VARIABLES

When set, the environment variables GS and GS_PROG will be used to identify GHOSTSCRIPT. The names of the other programs that are used can be set with PDFTOPS and PSTOEDIT.

SEE ALSO

mpost(1), mptopdf(1), pstoedit(1), texexec(1).