Thanks for the suggestions Wolfgang and Luigi. I've now got several good
options to research.

Kevin

On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 2:18 AM, Wolfgang Schuster <
schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:

>
> Am 31.01.2009 um 00:34 schrieb Kevin D. Robbins:
>
>  I am looking for ideas of how to capture a typeset page (as it would
>> appear in the resulting pdf output) into a box instead of actually shipping
>> it out directly, if it is possible. I would like to take advantage of
>> ConTeXt's layout features including layers, otherwise I would just create
>> the box with \setbox.
>>
>
> That's AFAIK not possible. Layer are not limited to the complete page,
> you could use them also with \framed and with streams you get many
> features of the page builder.
>
>  My intent is to draw slides using all of ConTeXt's many layout features,
>> but capture the rendered slide in a box so I can use it either as a full
>> page in the presentation output or as a scaled image included as a figure in
>> a full text "train the trainer" document.
>>
>
> Why don't you include the pages from the finished pdf, with ConTeXt's
> modes it is possible to wrote both parts in one document and create
> two files.
>
> Wolfgang
>
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