From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: How to capture a typeset page into a box instead of shipping it out
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2009 02:32:08 +0100 [thread overview]
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On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 12:34 AM, Kevin D. Robbins <
krobbins@alumni.princeton.edu> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> 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.
>
It's not an answer, but I think that it's an OTR (output routine) +
mutlipass problem.
if you search for 'OTR' in base/*
you will find what you need.
Also lua offers a table serializazion which can be useful instead of
\showbox .
>
> 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 the final pdf is not OK ?
You can convert an arbitrary page to a bitmap with ghostscript .
--
luigi
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-30 23:34 Kevin D. Robbins
2009-01-31 1:32 ` luigi scarso [this message]
2009-01-31 9:18 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-01-31 20:49 ` Kevin D. Robbins
2009-02-01 20:29 ` Roger Mason
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