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 and pstoedit, 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 will not run at all, otherwise it will report its steps and/or encountered error.

--help

returns some basic help information

--silent

don t report status messages

--force

always process the file (no checksum test)

--noclean

don t remove temporary files when finished

--acrobat

use ACROBAT for conversion (only unix)

--pdftops

use PDFTOPS for conversion

--ghostscript

use GHOSTSCRIPT for conversion

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

texexec(1).

The makempy manual, mmakempy.pdf.

This manual page was written by Frank Küster <frank@kuesterei.ch>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system. It may be used and modified by others without contacting the author.