A User's Manual for MetaPost.

The MetaPost system implements a picture-drawing language very much like Knuth's METAFONT except that it outputs Post-Script commands instead of run-length-encoded bitmaps. MetaPost is a powerful language for producing figures for documents to be printed on PostScript printers. It provides easy access to all the features of PostScript and it includes facilities for integrating text and graphics. This document serves as an introductory user's manual. It does not require knowledge of METAFONT to access to The METAFONTbook, but both are beneficial. An appendix explains the differences between MetaPost and METAFONT.