Re: How do I define a bounding box for the METAPOST output?

[Frederick Reiss <phred cs berkeley edu>]

Hi there.

Are you running your MetaPost through the "mpost" program before 
importing it into LaTeX?  Pdflatex doesn't handle raw MetaPost very 
well.  I usually add a ".mps" rule to my LaTeX makefiles:

-----
file.pdf: file.tex figure.mps
	pdflatex file.tex

%.mps : %.mp
	mpost $<
	mv $(notdir $(<:.mp=.[01234])) $@
-----

Then "\includegraphics{figure}" imports figure.mps instead of figure.mp.

This works for me with Dia 0.92 or the latest CVS under Linux.

                -Fred
-----original message------
 > A diagram was created using Dia and exported to Metapost TeX Macros,
 > it was included in a LaTeX file, using \includegraphics for subsequent
 > processing with pdflatex.
 >
 > pdflatex pumped out the error "blah blah no bounding box", so I'd like
 > to know how to define one? I've looked this up but all I get is stuff
[snip!]