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From: Willi Egger <context@boede.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: full page images on fixed pages
Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 22:07:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <D0B5842E-BB76-4140-BE4A-BF5F26C3DA89@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <C989E704-516E-4541-8650-287615D917C7@fiee.net>

Hi Hraban,

Humble but is it that the page will be entirely covered with a float? In that case you might better use
the background mechanism so that you can place the float on the paper instead of the page?

Willi
On May 19, 2012, at 8:38 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

> Am 2012-05-17 um 13:49 schrieb Philipp Gesang:
> 
>>> In my current book project, I need to set images on fixed pages
>>> (because only a few pages get printed in color),
>> 
>> I assume with “fixed pages” you mean “always on the page with a
>> certain number”. This, at least, might be solved with the
>> postponing mechanism:
>> 
>> ········································································
>> \starttext
>> 
>> \startpostponing [3]
>> \startstandardmakeup
>>   \externalfigure [cow] [width=\hsize]
>> \stopstandardmakeup
>> \stoppostponing
>> 
>> \dorecurse{42}{\input knuth \par}
>> 
>> \stoptext
>> ········································································
> 
> Thank you, that works, but the publisher decided to use glue binding to be able to put colored pages everywhere...
> 
> Can you explain, what standardmakeup really does? I know it’s used in "free layout" pages.
> 
> 
>> Not sure about your full page problem, though.
> 
> I'll open another thread on that.
> 
> 
> Greetlings, Hraban
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-05-19 20:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-05-16 20:30 Henning Hraban Ramm
2012-05-17 11:49 ` Philipp Gesang
2012-05-19 18:38   ` Henning Hraban Ramm
2012-05-19 20:07     ` Willi Egger [this message]
2012-05-19 21:06     ` Philipp Gesang

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