\placefigure [] [foo] {Bar}
{\externalfigure[foo.pdf][rotation=90]}
Does not rotate my figure. It just remains as is. Am I forgetting something?
You’re using the wrong key.
\setupexternalfigures[location=default]
\starttext
\externalfigure[cow][width=4cm]
\externalfigure[cow][width=4cm,orientation=90]
This one has an interesting side effect. My image is wider than high. It was scaled too small so i wanted to rotate it and make it bigger. With this one it seems the bounding box is not rotated, so the top of the rotated picture is off the page.
The dimensions are correct when you use MkIV.
I'd rather not change my production work to a research product :-) Too risky. And officially mkii is still maintained (or that is what I read).
\rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[cow][width=4cm]}
This works better, but the figure's size is not changed. Apparently, the size is calculated before it is rotated. And these claculations stick in different ways.
What do you expect, the width setting is for the unrotated figure.
Actually, I was not using width at all, just \externalfigure[foo]
I expected that \externalfigure[foo][orientation=90] would first rotate the figure and then calculate its size. But it did not. It put in a figure of 4x8, while telling TeX the box was 8x4.
I do expect that \rotate[rotation=90]{\externalfigure[foo][width=4cm]} gets me a height of 4cm.
G
Wolfgang
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