Re: Large Figure on Landscape Orientation

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Kip Warner wrote:

> I'm having difficulty getting an external image to display on its own
> page, with the page in landscape mode, and the image uniformly scaled as
> large as can fit on that page.
>
> Relevant portions of my environment file include...
>
> \setuplayout
>  [\c!location=\v!middle,
>   \c!style=\ss,
>   \c!backspace=2.5cm,
>   \c!topspace=1.5cm,
>   \c!width=16cm,
>   \c!margindistance=.25cm,
>   \c!margin=2.5cm,
>   \c!height=\v!middle]
>
> \definelayout
>  [fullpage]
>  [\c!backspace=0pt,
>   \c!topspace=0pt,
>   \c!width=\v!middle,
>   \c!height=\v!middle,
>   \c!header=0pt,
>   \c!footer=0pt]
>
> \definepapersize[main][A4][A4]
> \definepapersize[diagram][A4,landscape][A4,landscape]
>
> And the actual image in my component is here:
>
> \page
> \setuppapersize[diagram]
> \placefigure
>    [force][figure:MyImage]
>    {My image caption.}
>    {\externalfigure[MyImage][factor=max]}
> \page
> \setuppapersize[main]
>
> The document is all in portrait mode, save the page with the figure
> which is landscaped, as intended. But the image sits only occupying the
> top left quarter of the page. I've tried changing factor from max to
> broad and fit, and to no avail.

(untested)

try

\externalfigure[...][width=\textwidth,height=\textheight,factor=max]

Aditya
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