Pascal de Bruijn schrieb:
Hi,
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 13:02 +0200, Peter Rolf wrote:
Hi Pascal,
I spend more than one hour on this, to find a clean solution. So please add this to the wiki.
I will when I'm more comfortable with ConTeXt.
ok. any help is welcome.
And if you can, send my a copy of the nice background image (never mind if not). I felt in love with this, while testing your example.
I'm sorry, it's a commercial image. I don't own the copyright. However it can be purchased at high resolution (color) for an affordable price:
http://www.istockphoto.com/file_closeup/people_specific_attributes/race/mixe...
I hope the link doesn't break, if it does search for "Old Paper XXL". iStockPhoto has lots of really good artwork available at reasonable prices.
I see ('ll store the bookmark); I have similar (free) pictures, but not in this quality.
Anyhow, the cut markings are still lying under the picture (Hans?), the rest should work. The automatical scaling of the image uses a tricky method from this mailing list
http://archive.contextgarden.net/message/20070719.232314.12cb4f5f.en.html
Indeed, it would be nicer to have the cropmarks on top. Though this is not essential to me. Lulu.com actually doesn't want crop marks.
Best wishes, Peter
BTW: do you set a bleed|crop-box?
No clue? How do I do that? What does it do?
It simply defines the size and position of these boxes (which then become part of the document). In your case any(?) print shop then knows where to crop, even without any crop marks. See also http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/technotes/pdfboxes.pdf and (only german; sorry, couldn't find it on the english wiki) http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format#Angaben_der_Seitengeom...
Basically Lulu will print a 9.25"x6.25" image onto their paper. Then a centered 9"x6" page will be cut from that. This way full bleed print is achieved.
if they don't use them, you don't need them :)
Though I'm still wondering about one thing: What's better in my case \printpapersize or \overlaysize?
I would prefer the printpaper sizes, as this is exactly what you want (sizes are fixed). The power of the overlay sizes is, that they automaticaly change with the environment. But this is not needed here.
Thanks for your excellent help, Pascal de Bruijn
My pleasure! Best, Peter