Background on the "page" of the first page

Background on the "page" of the first page

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi,

I'd like to have a fency background and a colour on the first (and with
doublesided also on the last page). Somehow I cannot figure out how to
do so. I either get an error message, or not the whole page has that
background or all pages have that background. (I tried
\backgrounds[page][state=stop] after the first page with no success.)

Tobias
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Re: Background on the "page" of the first page

[Hans Hagen]

At 06:05 PM 1/6/01 +0100, Tobias Burnus wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'd like to have a fency background and a colour on the first (and with
>doublesided also on the last page). Somehow I cannot figure out how to
>do so. I either get an error message, or not the whole page has that
>background or all pages have that background. (I tried
>\backgrounds[page][state=stop] after the first page with no success.)

Just do: 

\setupbackgrounds
  [page][background=color,backgroundcolor=red]

.....

\setupbackgrounds
  [page][background=]

So, there is no state involved. See s-pre-*.tex for more examples. 

Hans 
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Re: Background on the "page" of the first page

[Hraban]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> >I'd like to have a fency background and a colour on the first (and with
> >doublesided also on the last page). Somehow I cannot figure out how to

If you want a picture as background, try this:

You need a picture "bild.pdf" that has the same proportions as your page.

\useexternalfigure[hintergrund][bild][width=21.5cm]
% width about 5 mm wider than the page, that it can be cropped
\defineoverlay[titelbild][{\externalfigure[hintergrund]}]
% becomes automatically centered

\setupbackgrounds[page][background=titelbild]
% instead of page you may say rightpage or leftpage

\setupbackgrounds	[rightpage][background=]
% switch it off afterwards

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Re: Background on the "page" of the first page

[Hans Hagen]

At 05:42 PM 1/7/01 +0100, Hraban wrote:
>Hans Hagen wrote:
>> >I'd like to have a fency background and a colour on the first (and with
>> >doublesided also on the last page). Somehow I cannot figure out how to
>
>If you want a picture as background, try this:
>
>You need a picture "bild.pdf" that has the same proportions as your page.
>
>\useexternalfigure[hintergrund][bild][width=21.5cm]
>% width about 5 mm wider than the page, that it can be cropped
>\defineoverlay[titelbild][{\externalfigure[hintergrund]}]
>% becomes automatically centered
>
>\setupbackgrounds[page][background=titelbild]
>% instead of page you may say rightpage or leftpage
>
>\setupbackgrounds	[rightpage][background=]
>% switch it off afterwards

There is a better way -) 

First, you can use \overlaywidth and \overlayheight as dimensions, so that
you don't have to have explicit sizes: 

\defineoverlay[titelbild][{\externalfigure[hintergrund][width=\overlaywidth,
height=\overlayheight]}]

a bit shorter is: 

  \defineoverlay[titelbild][\overlayfigure{hintergrund}]

Concerning the .5cm overshoot, 

  \setupbackgrounds[page][background=titelbild,backgroundoffset=2.5mm]

will do the trick. 

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transparent PNG on a coloured background

[Tobias Burnus]

Hi Hans, hi all,

I now have a problem with a logo (PNG file) which is round and has a
transparent background. I simply insert it using \externalfigure and the
background of the transparent parts is white (not the colour of that
page).

Tobias