From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Alan Braslau <alan.braslau@cea.fr>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: \externalfigure question
Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2017 19:20:17 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <273d61a3-870c-134f-7e86-0d6440d6ab39@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170217110630.7d5567f4@zoo.hsd1.co.comcast.net>
On 2/17/2017 7:06 PM, Alan Braslau wrote:
> On Fri, 17 Feb 2017 18:42:25 +0100
> Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl> wrote:
>
>> sx=
>> sy=
>>
>> iir small scales are also seen as fractions
>
> Like for the chemistry module, this can be confusing.
>
>
> Also, sx=,sy= muck with the aspect ratio, don't they?
>
> As we know, there is also an inconsistency in the handling of figure
> scaling. Consider:
>
> \startMPcode
> draw externalfigure("cow") xsized 5cm ;
> draw rawtextext("\externalfigure[cow]") xsized 5cm ;
> draw rawtextext("\externalfigure[cow][width=5cm]") ;
> \stopMPcode
>
> The first will draw a distorted, square 5cmX5cm cow,
> The second and third will both draw an undistorted, rectangular
> 5cmX3.635cm cow.
indeed but that has to do with compatibility ...
>> or identifying libraries used
>
> which assume different default dpi. Can this be normalized in the case
> of file formats (such as pdf) that do not explicitly set the dpi?
luatex teies to figure it out from the tags in th efile ... there has
been some improvements so maybe older luatex and new ones are different
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-02-17 18:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-02-17 14:20 j. van den hoff
2017-02-17 14:42 ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2017-02-17 14:43 ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-17 16:04 ` j. van den hoff
2017-02-17 16:51 ` Alan Braslau
2017-02-17 17:05 ` j. van den hoff
2017-02-17 17:43 ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-17 17:42 ` Hans Hagen
2017-02-17 18:06 ` Alan Braslau
2017-02-17 18:20 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2017-02-17 18:20 ` j. van den hoff
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