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From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Images centered on page
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 10:15:37 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071124101537.16a35329.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <op.t196vxm8nx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401>

On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:32:46 -0700
"Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu> wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:30:48 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster  
> <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 
> > \unprotect
> >
> > \def\fullpagebox
> >   {\bgroup
> >    \dowithnextbox
> >      {\!!widtha\dimexpr\paperwidth/\nextboxwd\relax
> >       \!!widthb\dimexpr\paperheight/\nextboxht\relax
> >       \ifdim\!!widtha>\!!widthb
> >         \setbox\nextbox\vbox\!!to\paperheight{\vss\expanded{\scale[\c!width=\paperwidth]{\flushnextbox}}\vss}%
> >       \else
> >         \setbox\nextbox\hbox\!!to\paperwidth{\hss\expanded{\scale[\c!height=\paperheight]{\flushnextbox}}\hss}%
> >       \fi  
> > \setbox\nextbox\hbox{\clip[\c!width=\paperwidth,\c!height=\paperheight]{\flushnextbox}}%
> >       \startTEXpage
> >       \flushnextbox
> >       \stopTEXpage
> >       \egroup}
> >    \hbox}
> >
> > \protect
> >
> > \starttext
> >
> > \fullpagebox{\externalfigure[image]}
> >
> > \stoptext
> 
> Now THAT's the 1st-class gangster we know and love so much ;-)
> 
> Question: How can we, if desired, fit the image to the page dimensions?  
> See what happens with
> 
> \starttext
> 
> \fullpagebox{\externalfigure[cow][scale=fit]}
> 
> \stoptext

Can you try \pagefigure, my solution was to scale a image to the
papersize and remove parts. \pagefigure includes a figure within a
TEXpage and you scale now the figure to the size of the document.

\starttext

\pagefigure[cow][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight]

\stoptext

Wolfgang
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      reply	other threads:[~2007-11-24  9:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <mailman.1.1195815602.3459.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2007-11-23 16:55 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-11-23 17:07   ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 17:24     ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-11-23 17:31       ` luigi scarso
2007-11-23 17:47         ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 17:36       ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 17:46   ` Peter Münster
2007-11-23 18:00     ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 18:00   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-11-23 19:30   ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-11-23 19:48     ` luigi scarso
2007-11-24  5:32     ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-24  9:15       ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]

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