Many thanks to everyone for advice - I combined various suggestions and managed to end up with a landscape picture occupying the full page.

The various options for removing the running headline seemed not to work - I was hopeful that headerstate=empty might, but \placefigure seems not to admit this as an option, and I didn't want to get too involved with Hraban's elegant solution for bleeding illustrations (which may well be useful in future work). At any rate, I cheated by putting this hamfisted code in front of the caption:

\llap{\color[white]{\smash{\vrule height 310pt depth 24pt width 24pt}}\kern 12pt}

That doesn't remove the headline but it obliterates it!

Best wishes

John 🇪🇺 Слава Україні! 🇺🇦

On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 at 22:27, Wolfgang Schuster <wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Am 07.07.2025 um 16:22 schrieb John Was:
> Hello
>
> Is it possible to suppress the headline on pages which are entirely
> occupied by an illustration? This is sometimes useful to maximize the
> space available for the picture, especially a landscape picture with a
> lot of detail.
>
> I have used 'orientation=270' to position a figure in landscape mode,
> with the width set to the vertical height of the page (or close to it if
> that would make the overall size too large). But I haven't worked out
> how to set the caption underneath the figure (that is, rotate the
> caption also, using the full width of the figure): the caption appears
> at the bottom of the page as for a portrait-oriented figure, which is
> inconvenient for the reader.

You already got a few suggestions but for a better answer it is always
helpful to provide a minimal example which shows what you have tried so
far. To create an example without the need for external ressources you
can either use one of the included sample images

%%%% begin example
\setupexternalfigures[location=default]

\starttext

\startcombination[2*2]
{\externalfigure[spider.eps][combination]}{spider.eps}
{\externalfigure [mill.png][combination]}{mill.png}
{\externalfigure [cow.pdf][combination]}{cow.pdf}
{\externalfigure[hacker.jpg][combination]}{hacker.png}
\stopcombination

\stoptext
%%%% end example

or use the dummy library to add random backgrounds to images.

%%%% begin example
\useMPlibrary[dum]

\starttext

\startcombination[3*1]
{\externalfigure [wide][width=6cm,height=4cm]}{}
{\externalfigure[equal][width=4cm,height=4cm]}{}
{\externalfigure [tall][width=4cm,height=6cm]}{}
\stopcombination

\stoptext
%%%% end example

Wolfgang

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