[NTG-context] Re: Background colour in PDF with export activated

[Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com>]

Florent Michel schrieb am 20.11.2024 um 17:26:
> Hi,
>
> I'm having issues generating PDF files with a coloured background when 
> export is set to ‘yes’.
>
> Minimal example:
>
> \setupbackend[export=yes]
> \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=color,backgroundcolor=black]
> \starttext
> \startcolor[white]
> test
> \stoptext
>
> This example seems to work as expected when I comment out the first 
> line (a black page with the word ‘test’ in white). However, with the 
> first line the pdf looks entirely white. Is this a known issue, or am 
> I doing something wrong here?

When you use the export mode some features of Context are disabled and 
in your case the page background is one of these disabled features.

It has always been recommended to make separate runs for the PDF output 
and the document export.

Wolfgang

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