From: "Idris Samawi Hamid" <ishamid@colostate.edu>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Images centered on page
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2007 22:32:46 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <op.t196vxm8nx1yh1@your-b27fb1c401> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <115224fb0711231130n790b43a1t6baeb1c1599151b1@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:30:48 -0700, Wolfgang Schuster
<schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> wrote:
> \unprotect
>
> \def\fullpagebox
> {\bgroup
> \dowithnextbox
> {\!!widtha\dimexpr\paperwidth/\nextboxwd\relax
> \!!widthb\dimexpr\paperheight/\nextboxht\relax
> \ifdim\!!widtha>\!!widthb
> \setbox\nextbox\vbox\!!to\paperheight{\vss\expanded{\scale[\c!width=\paperwidth]{\flushnextbox}}\vss}%
> \else
> \setbox\nextbox\hbox\!!to\paperwidth{\hss\expanded{\scale[\c!height=\paperheight]{\flushnextbox}}\hss}%
> \fi
> \setbox\nextbox\hbox{\clip[\c!width=\paperwidth,\c!height=\paperheight]{\flushnextbox}}%
> \startTEXpage
> \flushnextbox
> \stopTEXpage
> \egroup}
> \hbox}
>
> \protect
>
> \starttext
>
> \fullpagebox{\externalfigure[image]}
>
> \stoptext
Now THAT's the 1st-class gangster we know and love so much ;-)
Question: How can we, if desired, fit the image to the page dimensions?
See what happens with
\starttext
\fullpagebox{\externalfigure[cow][scale=fit]}
\stoptext
Idris
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-24 5:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2007-11-23 16:55 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-11-23 17:07 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 17:24 ` Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-11-23 17:31 ` luigi scarso
2007-11-23 17:47 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 17:36 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 17:46 ` Peter Münster
2007-11-23 18:00 ` Idris Samawi Hamid
2007-11-23 18:00 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-11-23 19:30 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2007-11-23 19:48 ` luigi scarso
2007-11-24 5:32 ` Idris Samawi Hamid [this message]
2007-11-24 9:15 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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