From: "Johannes Hüsing" <hannes@ruhrau.de>
Subject: Re: PDF-bookmarks and title pages
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 20:31:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020204203125.A861@ruhrau.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20020202105211.02abb008@server-1>
On Sat, Feb 02, 2002 at 10:55:38AM +0100, Hans Hagen wrote:
[me:]
> >is there already documentation about layers? I am puzzled
> >trying to separate the concept from overlays.
>
> there is some explanation of layers in the metafun manual.
>
> layers are kind of related to overlays, consider them a structure that is
> meant to be used in layers
>
That's what I mean :-) overlays superimpose too.
> they collect content and permit positioning and moving around,
to my mind the main distinction to overlays.
> the layer
> content either or not can be repeated, and tight to (named and numbered)
> pages; currently i'm playing with prebuild layer options for adding
> text/graphics etc to pages so that one can create rather complex title pages
>
> [actually, it would be nice to have a graphical user interface to layers]
>
I see many-a-program shy away from rendering postscript or PDF (Microsoft
products as well as eg tgif), so I'm always under the impression that it
is not a trivial task to build anything like that.
Greetings
Johannes
--
Johannes Hüsing There is something fascinating about science. One gets
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Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-31 14:51 Klaus Herrmann
2002-01-31 15:09 ` Berend de Boer
[not found] ` <3C5962AD.6EEC3F0D@ivs.tu-berlin.de>
2002-01-31 15:37 ` Berend de Boer
[not found] ` <3C596A55.9DCC5FD1@ivs.tu-berlin.de>
2002-01-31 18:11 ` Berend de Boer
2002-01-31 16:25 ` Hans Hagen
2002-02-01 20:32 ` Johannes Hüsing
2002-02-02 9:55 ` Hans Hagen
2002-02-03 20:10 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-02-04 8:36 ` Hans Hagen
2002-02-04 19:33 ` ConTeXt layout app (was: PDF-bookmarks and title pages) Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-02-05 8:41 ` Hans Hagen
2002-02-05 17:43 ` complex layout (was ConTeXt layout app) Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-02-06 8:20 ` ConTeXt layout app (was: PDF-bookmarks and title pages) Dan Seracu
2002-02-06 18:32 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2002-02-08 9:02 ` Hans Hagen
2002-02-12 22:09 ` Contributions :: Locations Michael Hallgren
2002-02-14 14:38 ` Taco Hoekwater
2002-02-16 9:49 ` Michael Hallgren
2002-02-04 19:31 ` Johannes Hüsing [this message]
2002-01-31 15:21 ` PDF-bookmarks and title pages Hans Hagen
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