From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30627 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Paul Jones" Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Photobook Date: Fri, 1 Sep 2006 20:53:44 -0600 Message-ID: References: <3d3c4b7e0609010706r3b3ae214w9503db2ab97630df@mail.gmail.com> <44F87901.7060708@boede.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1351436927==" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157165642 19684 80.91.229.2 (2 Sep 2006 02:54:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2006 02:54:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Sep 02 04:54:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GJLdx-0001Ut-0Y for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Sep 2006 04:54:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC7C51FE6C; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:53:59 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 04557-02; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:53:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 239B61FE48; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:53:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43171FE48 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:53:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 03337-07 for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:53:46 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.226]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 2B65E1FDFD for ; Sat, 2 Sep 2006 04:53:45 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s12so1171356wxc for ; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.115.4 with SMTP id n4mr929191agc; Fri, 01 Sep 2006 19:53:45 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.90.67.7 with HTTP; Fri, 1 Sep 2006 19:53:44 -0700 (PDT) Original-To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" In-Reply-To: <44F87901.7060708@boede.nl> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30627 Archived-At: --===============1351436927== Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_59656_13650282.1157165624951" ------=_Part_59656_13650282.1157165624951 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I have just implemented something like this using layers. I store templates in a db which show where photos can go on a page and then allow users to put photos on the page. If you are interested contact me directly and I can show you what I have done to have context typeset the images. Some of the information is on the context wiki, but I have not finished updating it. The system allows users to select any size of book and the templates adjust accordingly. The front end allowing the users to place the photos is not quite done yet. paul On 9/1/06, Willi Egger wrote: > > Fidel Viegas wrote: > > Hello folks, > > > > I have been playing around with Context for over a month and I think > > it is a fantastic tool. Comparing it with LaTex it is a more general > > tool and gives you far more options. Now, I was wondering if any > > Context user has created photobooks with contexts and how they went > > about doing it. > > I would love to hear people's experiences. > > No, no photobooks, but I have made different other books which include > figures/foto's and text. Some of them are even arranged into sections. - > So if you could be more specific on waht you want to achieve ... > > Kind regards > > Willi > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > ------=_Part_59656_13650282.1157165624951 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline I have just implemented something like this using layers.  I store templates in a db which show where photos can go on a page and then allow users to put photos on the page.  If you are interested contact me directly and I can show you what I have done to have context typeset the images.  Some of the information is on the context wiki, but I have not finished updating it.  The system allows users to select any size of book and the templates adjust accordingly.  The front end allowing the users to place the photos is not quite done yet.

paul

On 9/1/06, Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl> wrote:
Fidel Viegas wrote:
> Hello folks,
>
> I have been playing around with Context for over a month and I think
> it is a fantastic tool. Comparing it with LaTex it is a more general
> tool and gives you far more options. Now, I was wondering if any
> Context user has created photobooks with contexts and how they went
> about doing it.
> I would love to hear people's experiences.

No, no photobooks, but I have made different other books which include
figures/foto's and text. Some of them are even arranged into sections. -
So if you could be more specific on waht you want to achieve ...

Kind regards

Willi
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