From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/35696 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Rolf Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Background image Date: Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:47:24 +0200 Message-ID: <46B75EAC.3030706@gmx.net> References: <1186331269.12049.6.camel@carnifex> <46B6FFAE.9070408@gmx.net> <1186417389.5981.8.camel@carnifex> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1186422458 21028 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2007 17:47:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 6 Aug 2007 17:47:38 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Mon Aug 06 19:47:35 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1II6g2-0006iG-TR for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Aug 2007 19:47:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BC4220016; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:47:34 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21120-03-3; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7F6920005; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2ECC620005 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:47:23 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 21120-03-2 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:47:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from mail.gmx.net (mail.gmx.net [213.165.64.20]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 6DD891FFF5 for ; Mon, 6 Aug 2007 19:47:20 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 06 Aug 2007 17:47:20 -0000 Original-Received: from i577B9EEF.versanet.de (EHLO [192.168.1.3]) [87.123.158.239] by mail.gmx.net (mp042) with SMTP; 06 Aug 2007 19:47:20 +0200 X-Authenticated: #24293357 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX181SKkNp3Q1iBi/OB5acdyp9zVsFAvJ2MXSZmBHHI YVR8hrNDAA6/i0 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Windows/20070728) In-Reply-To: <1186417389.5981.8.camel@carnifex> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:35696 Archived-At: Pascal de Bruijn schrieb: > Hi, > > On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:02 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote: >> Hi Pascal, >> >> I spend more than one hour on this, to find a clean solution. So please >> add this to the wiki. > > I will when I'm more comfortable with ConTeXt. > ok. any help is welcome. >> And if you can, send my a copy of the nice background image (never mind >> if not). I felt in love with this, while testing your example. > > I'm sorry, it's a commercial image. I don't own the copyright. However > it can be purchased at high resolution (color) for an affordable price: > > http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/people_specific_attributes/race/mixed_background/3259587_old_paper_xxl.php?id=3259587 > > I hope the link doesn't break, if it does search for "Old Paper XXL". > iStockPhoto has lots of really good artwork available at reasonable > prices. > I see ('ll store the bookmark); I have similar (free) pictures, but not in this quality. >> Anyhow, the cut markings are still lying under the picture (Hans?), >> the rest should work. The automatical scaling of the image uses a tricky >> method from this mailing list >> >> http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070719.232314.12cb4f5f.en.html >> > > Indeed, it would be nicer to have the cropmarks on top. Though this is > not essential to me. Lulu.com actually doesn't want crop marks. > >> Best wishes, Peter >> >> BTW: do you set a bleed|crop-box? > > No clue? How do I do that? What does it do? > It simply defines the size and position of these boxes (which then become part of the document). In your case any(?) print shop then knows where to crop, even without any crop marks. See also http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/technotes/pdfboxes.pdf and (only german; sorry, couldn't find it on the english wiki) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Angaben_der_Seitengeometrie > Basically Lulu will print a 9.25"x6.25" image onto their paper. Then a > centered 9"x6" page will be cut from that. This way full bleed print is > achieved. > if they don't use them, you don't need them :) > Though I'm still wondering about one thing: What's better in my case > \printpapersize or \overlaysize? > I would prefer the printpaper sizes, as this is exactly what you want (sizes are fixed). The power of the overlay sizes is, that they automaticaly change with the environment. But this is not needed here. > > Thanks for your excellent help, > Pascal de Bruijn > My pleasure! Best, Peter ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________