Re: drops module (draft)

[Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net>]

Hi Otared,

thanks for the report. No problems here with my old Acrobat Pro 9.52
(syntax checks shows no errors) or PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 on Windows7
Ultimate 64-bit.

You can try to compile it on your machine (full source is included), if
you have a recent IM version installed. Sorry, I can't check it with a
newer Adobe version (parallel installation messes up the system and a
installation in a VM does not work).

I guess it's more a problem of the actual viewer (11), than a problem
with the PDF. Still annoying.


Best wishes,  Peter


Am 07.12.2012 19:02, schrieb Otared Kavian:
> Hi Peter,
> 
> Thank you for your very nice module.
> For your information, I wanted just to report an issue I noticed with Adobe Reader (Version: 11.0.0 (11.0.0)) on Mac OS X 10.8: when I try to open the file « pile.pdf » (which is in your « examples » directory) Adobe Reader crashes and there is no way to open that file with it. However th eother file, « rotate.pdf » opens without any problem…
>
> Best regards: OK
> 
> On 6 déc. 2012, at 18:08, Peter Rolf <indiego@gmx.net> wrote:
> 
>> Hi all,
>>
>> a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at
>>
>> https://www.wuala.com/indiego/public/ConTeXt/drops/?key=caiCGLasLFmJ
>>
>>
>> Taken from the included documentation..
>> [..]
>> 'drops' is a small extension for ConTeXt, that allows you to add drop
>> shadows to rectangular regions (so called boxshadows). A working
>> installation of ImageMagick (IM) is required to create the shadow
>> graphics. The supported color spaces are CMYK, RGB and Gray, the file
>> formats are limited to PNG and JPG.
>> [..]
>> Read the manual for detailed information.
>>
>> The attached example is just a small test file for the 'rotation'
>> parameter (a compensation for the object rotation, so that the shadow
>> stays at the given direction). You will find other examples in the
>> documentation and there is also a 'pile' example with the complete
>> source. The 'presets' pdf contains the predefined setups for different
>> shadow (or frame) types and it's source is a good starting point for
>> your own experiments.
>>
>> This is a first draft, but most things work quite stable. If you want to
>> help, test as much as possible. :-)
>>
>> *You need a recent version of ImageMagick for this module.*
>>
>> 6.7.8-2 to 6.8.0-7 (wrong version info 6.8.0-6): used here, should work
>> 6.7.6-0 or lower: will fail due to incompatibilities
>> 7.0.0.0 alpha: untested ('magick' is used instead of 'convert')
>>
>> Tested on Windows7 64bit and Debian 6.0.5-i386 (IM compiled from source)
>>
>>
>> Happy TeXing!
>>
>>
>> Peter
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