Screen document design

Screen document design

[Ian Lawrence]

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Morning all,

Quick question.

I want to design a screen document at 1024 by 768 pixels, so ideally work in
pixels as units, and not mm / cm.

I know pdfs are scalable and about \setuppapersize[S6][S6], but I'd prefer
to work in pixels (I have swfs / images to embed, and these come in x by y
pixels).

Anyone have an easy answer?

...nothing I have found in the selection of downloadable documentation or on
the wiki suggests that it is possible...


Thanks

Ian

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Re: Screen document design

[luigi scarso]

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com> wrote:
> Morning all,
> Quick question.
> I want to design a screen document at 1024 by 768 pixels, so ideally work in
> pixels as units, and not mm / cm.
> I know pdfs are scalable and about \setuppapersize[S6][S6], but I'd prefer
> to work in pixels (I have swfs / images to embed, and these come in x by y
> pixels).
> Anyone have an easy answer?
\definepapersize[Screen][width=1024px,height=768px]
\setuppapersize[Screen][Screen]

You should check if it's ok, I'm not sure.
-- 
luigi
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Re: Screen document design

[Ian Lawrence]

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Thanks for taking the trouble for what was really simple, but seems
undocumented (?)
It does, and then all the offsets etc, seem to work in pixels as well.

eg.

\definelayer [topmatter] % name of the layer
[x= 0 px, y=20 px, % from upper left corner of paper
width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] % let the layer cover the full paper

Ian

On 24 February 2011 09:47, luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 10:40 AM, Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Morning all,
> > Quick question.
> > I want to design a screen document at 1024 by 768 pixels, so ideally work
> in
> > pixels as units, and not mm / cm.
> > I know pdfs are scalable and about \setuppapersize[S6][S6], but I'd
> prefer
> > to work in pixels (I have swfs / images to embed, and these come in x by
> y
> > pixels).
> > Anyone have an easy answer?
> \definepapersize[Screen][width=1024px,height=768px]
> \setuppapersize[Screen][Screen]
>
> You should check if it's ok, I'm not sure.
> --
> luigi
>
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Re: Screen document design

[Marco]

On 2011-02-24 Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com> wrote:

> Thanks for taking the trouble for what was really simple, but seems
> undocumented (?)

Some other units:
  mm  Millimetres
  cm  Centimetres
  in  Inches
  em  em width, depends on the font
  ex  ex height, depends on the font
  pc  Picas (1pc = 12pt)
  pt  Points (1in = 72.27pt)


Marco


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Re: Screen document design

[Henning Hraban Ramm]

Am 2011-02-24 um 11:34 schrieb Marco:

> On 2011-02-24 Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for taking the trouble for what was really simple, but seems
>> undocumented (?)
>
> Some other units:
>  mm  Millimetres
>  cm  Centimetres
>  in  Inches
>  em  em width, depends on the font
>  ex  ex height, depends on the font
>  pc  Picas (1pc = 12pt)
>  pt  Points (1in = 72.27pt)


There’s also bp (big points). We have the difference between TeX  
points (pt) and PostScript points (bp) in ConTeXt like in every other  
TeX:
1 pt = 1/72,27 in = 0,3515 mm (traditional American printer’s point)
1 bp = 1/72 in = 0,3528 mm (after the Anglo-Saxon compromise inch of  
1959 = 25.4 mm)
(1 "Didot" point, traditionally used in Europe, was 0,376 mm)

See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)

Greetlings from Lake Constance!
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Re: Screen document design

[Ian Lawrence]

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So many things I am only vaguely aware of....!

But I think that pixels are
a) undocumented
b) work....

And I'm pretty sure i'll put both (ignorant) feet in it in trying to add
something to the Wiki...

Greetings from the grey England..
Ian


On 24 February 2011 13:32, Henning Hraban Ramm <hraban@fiee.net> wrote:

>
> Am 2011-02-24 um 11:34 schrieb Marco:
>
>
>  On 2011-02-24 Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>  Thanks for taking the trouble for what was really simple, but seems
>>> undocumented (?)
>>>
>>
>> Some other units:
>>  mm  Millimetres
>>  cm  Centimetres
>>  in  Inches
>>  em  em width, depends on the font
>>  ex  ex height, depends on the font
>>  pc  Picas (1pc = 12pt)
>>  pt  Points (1in = 72.27pt)
>>
>
>
> There’s also bp (big points). We have the difference between TeX points
> (pt) and PostScript points (bp) in ConTeXt like in every other TeX:
> 1 pt = 1/72,27 in = 0,3515 mm (traditional American printer’s point)
> 1 bp = 1/72 in = 0,3528 mm (after the Anglo-Saxon compromise inch of 1959 =
> 25.4 mm)
> (1 "Didot" point, traditionally used in Europe, was 0,376 mm)
>
> See also http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point_(typography)
>
> Greetlings from Lake Constance!
> Hraban
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>
>
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Re: Screen document design

[luigi scarso]

On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 9:29 AM, Ian Lawrence <physics.rooted@gmail.com> wrote:
> So many things I am only vaguely aware of....!
> But I think that pixels are
> a) undocumented
> b) work....
> And I'm pretty sure i'll put both (ignorant) feet in it in trying to add
> something to the Wiki...
> Greetings from the grey England..
> Ian
It's a pdftex feature.
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