RE: Metapost - text alignment

[Lars Clausen <lars raeder dk>]

On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 09:59 +1030, Young, Robert wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 09:00 +1030, Young, Robert wrote:
> > >  >Thanks, I'll give it a try.  Do you have a quick-and-dirty way
> > > > to see if metapost output is correct (e.g. convert MP files 
> > directly 
> > > > to PNG or something)?  I'm not a metaposter myself.
> > >
> > > Try mptopdf - it's on my vanilla Suse install.
> >
> > Thank you, much easier.  The attached diagram shows exactly 
> > what my concern is.
>
> Thanks - yes, this is very obviously a problem.
>
> Could you please send the .dia file? I have attached a quick example
> that shows that the text is too small (maybe 10%) in the metapost
> output, rather than too big as per your example. All created using the
> patch from _yesterday_.

The .dia file is the UML-demo.dia from the samples dir.

I used unpatch pre3.  With the patch, it is indeed too small.

-Lars