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At 09:24 15/12/2003, you wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I'm doing a christmars card in ConTeXt!. I've the following setup
>
>\setuppapersize[CD][A4]
>\setuplayout[marking=on,location=middle]
>
>\starttext
>\startuseMPgraphic{dummy}
>...
>...
>\stopuseMPgraphic
>
>\defineoverlay[backfigure][\useMPgraphic{dummy}]
>\setupbackground[paper][background=backfigure]
>\hbox{}
>\stoptext

>\starttext
>\startuseMPgraphic{dummy}
>...
>...
>\stopuseMPgraphic
>
>\defineoverlay[backfigure][\useMPgraphic{dummy}]
>\setupbackground[paper][background=backfigure]
>\hbox{}
>\stoptext

   \defineoverlay[page][\useMPgraphic{dummy}]

   \setupbackground[page][background=page]

   \startstandardmakeup
   some text
   \stopstandardmakeup

   \setupbackground[page][background=]

   rest of text on next page

or:

   \definelayer[page] \setlayer[page]{\useMPgraphic{dummy}]

   \startstandardmakeup
   some text
   \stopstandardmakeup

   rest of text on next page

Hans (who right now is going to print this years christmas card -)