Re: fitting a picture to the available space

["Wolfgang Schuster" <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>]

On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Mojca Miklavec
<mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 11, 2008 at 12:06 AM, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote:
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> I'm pulling my hair out. I'm trying to set up an automatism to fit
>> pictures to the available space on a slide.
>
> Hello,
>
> I'm probably talking about something else, though highly related.
> There's one thing that I often miss on slides:
>
> *Here's a title*
>
> - here are
> - some items
>
> [and I want the picture to fill up all the remaining space on slide]
>
> Or even if there' only title + image. I tried option=max (or something
> similar), but always ended up setting image size manually. Most often
> I got title on one page and image on another (It would be less painful
> to have image on the same page, even if it hangs much over the lower
> border - is there something similar to \placefigure[thispage] option
> (puts the figure on the same page, even if there's no space left)?)
>
> Mojca
>
> [I need to stop asking questions now.]

Quick and dirty:

\showframe

\starttext

\input knuth

\start

\scratchdimen=\pagegoal
\advance\scratchdimen by -\pagetotal
\advance\scratchdimen by -2\lineheight

\blank

\hrule height \scratchdimen\relax

\stop

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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