RE: Mini-survey: What do you do with ConTeXt?

["Pearson, Mark (Capita Symonds)" <mark.pearson@capita.co.uk>]

Hi All,

I'm currently working in a team which is building a system for
the automatic production of office stationery (business cards,
letterheads and compliment slips) with ConTeXt at its heart. 

The system provides a web-application front end for selected
users to create stationery orders. These orders are then 
processed to produce .tex files, which are processed by 
ConTeXt to produce press-ready PDFs. The PDFs are sent with
order details straight to our in-house printing department.

I was tasked with creating the PDF engine and chose ConTeXt
because (a) I have a lot of experience with LaTeX and hence a
great deal of respect for TeX's capabilities but (b) knew that
controlling the layouts in LaTeX would be a pain.

The following features of ConTeXt are used in this project:

* Native support for OpenType fonts
* Support for creation of high quality press-ready PDFs
* Fine control over document layout, page design etc.
* Support for embedding JPG, TIFF, PNG amd PDF images
* Support for the use of named (PANTONE) spot colours

The choice of ConTeXt was not an easy one having never used
it before but my gut feeling was that it is a very powerful
and flexible piece of software. It has met all my requirements
so far but not without a fight, as the documentation can be
very sparse! 

I will certainly contribute what documentation I can when I
have more time.

Mark

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