From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Background colour of included PDF images
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 15:51:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070901155122.8596f608.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070901124938.GA29769@localhost>
On Sat, 1 Sep 2007 18:19:38 +0530
Kumar Appaiah <akumar@ee.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> Dear ConTeXt users,
>
> I am making a presentation using ConTeXt, and wish to use some plain
> images. I am running into some trouble, especially with the background
> colour of the image, which I wish to force. Here is some information:
>
> 1. I make the image using Dia, and export it.
> 2. I include the EPS directly, and Acrobat doesn't like it.
> 3. I epstopdf the images, they come otu well, except that they are
> transparent and the images with black text and lines looks bad on
> my dark background presentation.
>
> I partially worked around the problem by using background=screen in my
> \useexternalfigure calls. However, I have a combination image, where
> the second image comes without the white filled background.
>
> Could you please tell me a way to force the background colour of my
> images to white? I really don't want to convert it to PNG or
> something, since PNG doesn't look nice after scaling, does it? :-)
>
> Thanks in advance.
Hi Kumar,
you are not restricted to a gray background in your figures, you can
also use colors.
\externalfigure[...][background=color,backgroundcolor=white]
Wolfgang
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2007-09-01 12:49 Kumar Appaiah
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2007-09-01 14:28 ` Kumar Appaiah
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