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When trying to draw a Feynman diagram using the feynmp-auto package, there simply is no result, the pdf comes out as a blank page. I use TeXstudio and MikTeX, and run the file with pdflatex.

I have read the documentation (in which it is stated that in the case one uses MikTeX, -shell-espace should be used) and have tried to force TeXstudio to run with -shell-escape in multiple ways (exhausted the options in Setting up LaTeX -> DVIPS -> PS2PDF with Shell-Escape (in TeXStudio)).

The MWE that I'm trying to run is the following.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{feynmp-auto}
\begin{document}
\unitlength=1mm
\begin{fmffile}{photon}
    \begin{fmfgraph*}(40,25)
        \fmfkeep{photon}
        \fmfleft{i1,i2}
        \fmfright{o1,o2}
        \fmf{fermion}{i1,v1,i2}
        \fmf{fermion}{o1,v2,o2}
        \fmf{photon}{v1,v2}
    \end{fmfgraph*}
\end{fmffile}
\end{document}

How does one get the diagram to show up in the pdf?

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  • Did you compile twice? Two runs of LaTeX are necessary when there's a new diagram in the document (or we're at the first run). – egreg Sep 26 '14 at 17:47
  • @egreg Yes. The file photon.mp is created in the first run (and probably overwritten in the second), and should thus be available for inclusion in the second run. – Betohaku Sep 26 '14 at 18:02
  • photon.mp is not what's included, but photon.1, which is obtained when photon.mp is processed by Metapost. Remove all the photon.* files and retry, or try \usepackage[force]{feynmp-auto} – egreg Sep 26 '14 at 18:08
  • I've done both deleting the photon.* files and using \usepackage[force]{feynmp-auto} now, but no result. Does this mean Metapost isn't run? – Betohaku Sep 26 '14 at 18:10
  • I think so. Sorry, but I can't test on MiKTeX. – egreg Sep 26 '14 at 19:21
  • @egreg It does work (oh, finally) when including -shell-escape in the pdflatex command line, but the pdf file is not created when writing % !TeX TXS-program:compile = txs:///latex/[-shell-escape] in the document. Apparently these are not equivalent. – Betohaku Sep 27 '14 at 10:57

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