Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

Hi Otared, thanks for the report. No problems here with my old Acrobat Pro 9.52 (syntax checks shows no errors) or PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 on Windows7 Ultimate 64-bit. You can try to compile it on your machine (full source is included), if you have a recent IM version installed. Sorry, I can't check it with a newer Adobe version (parallel installation messes up the system and a installation in a VM does not work). I guess it's more a problem of the actual viewer (11), than a problem with the PDF. Still annoying. Best wishes, Peter Am 07.12.2012 19:02, schrieb Otared Kavian:

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your very nice module. For your information, I wanted just to report an issue I noticed with Adobe Reader (Version: 11.0.0 (11.0.0)) on Mac OS X 10.8: when I try to open the file « pile.pdf » (which is in your « examples » directory) Adobe Reader crashes and there is no way to open that file with it. However th eother file, « rotate.pdf » opens without any problem…

Best regards: OK

On 6 déc. 2012, at 18:08, Peter Rolf wrote:

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Hi all,

a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at

https://www.wuala.com/indiego/public/ConTeXt/drops/?key=caiCGLasLFmJ

Taken from the included documentation.. [..] 'drops' is a small extension for ConTeXt, that allows you to add drop shadows to rectangular regions (so called boxshadows). A working installation of ImageMagick (IM) is required to create the shadow graphics. The supported color spaces are CMYK, RGB and Gray, the file formats are limited to PNG and JPG. [..] Read the manual for detailed information.

The attached example is just a small test file for the 'rotation' parameter (a compensation for the object rotation, so that the shadow stays at the given direction). You will find other examples in the documentation and there is also a 'pile' example with the complete source. The 'presets' pdf contains the predefined setups for different shadow (or frame) types and it's source is a good starting point for your own experiments.

This is a first draft, but most things work quite stable. If you want to help, test as much as possible. :-)

*You need a recent version of ImageMagick for this module.*

6.7.8-2 to 6.8.0-7 (wrong version info 6.8.0-6): used here, should work 6.7.6-0 or lower: will fail due to incompatibilities 7.0.0.0 alpha: untested ('magick' is used instead of 'convert')

Tested on Windows7 64bit and Debian 6.0.5-i386 (IM compiled from source)

Happy TeXing!

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