Re: [NTG-context] resize and center and clip image

1 May 2014

      Hi Mikael,

Out of curiosity I tried to typeset your example (after adding the usual \starttext, \stoptext), but using 
	ConTeXt  ver: 2014.04.28 23:24 MKIV beta  fmt: 2014.4.29  int: english/english 
I obtained a TeX error:

tex error       > error on line 13 in file /Users/kavian/Context/essais/mkii/figures/resize-and-center.tex: ! Undefined control sequence

\startexternalfigurecollection ...igurecollection 
                                                  {#1}\settrue \c_grph_inclu...
l.13 \clip[width=8cm,height=7cm]
                              {%

 3     \startexternalfigurecollection[k.jpg]
 4         \useexternalfigure[k.jpg][k.jpg]
 5     \stopexternalfigurecollection

I did not understand what is the « Undefined control sequence », since I think \clip is a known control sequence.

Best regards: OK

On 1 mai 2014, at 15:38, Mikael P. Sundqvist  wrote:
...
OK, sorry for the noise. I think I have the solution:
\startexternalfigurecollection[k.jpg]
    \useexternalfigure[k.jpg][k.jpg]
\stopexternalfigurecollection
\externalfigurecollectionminwidth{k.jpg}
\externalfigurecollectionmaxheight{k.jpg}
\clip[width=8cm,height=7cm]{%
\framed[width=8cm,height=7cm,align={middle,lohi},offset=overlay]{%
\dimen0=\externalfigurecollectionminwidth{k.jpg}
\dimen2=\externalfigurecollectionmaxheight{k.jpg}
\dimen4=8cm
\dimen6=7cm
\startluacode
if tex.dimen[0] / tex.dimen[2] < tex.dimen[4] / tex.dimen[6] then
     local skalning =
-0.5*(tex.dimen[4]/tex.dimen[0]*tex.dimen[2]-tex.dimen[6])
     context("\\vskip%ssp", skalning)
     context.externalfigure({"k.jpg"},{width="8cm"})
     context.sprint("foo")
else
     local skalning =
-0.5*(tex.dimen[6]/tex.dimen[2]*tex.dimen[0]-tex.dimen[4])
     context("\\hskip%ssp", skalning)
     context.externalfigure({"k.jpg"},{height="7cm"})
     context.sprint("bar")
end
\stopluacode
}}
If there are any bad side effects of this or simplifications, please
do not hesitate to tell me :)
/Mikael
On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:50 PM, Mikael P. Sundqvist  wrote:
...
Hi!
Assume that I want to fill in the text area with images, and I want to
clip and scale them according to these rules:
1) If the image is "too wide" (in sense of proportions), then scale it
so that the height fits the text area height, center it, and clip it
to the text area. (See the attached image, on top, where the blue area
is supposed to show the text area and the red rectangle the image.)
2) If the image is "too high" (in sense of proportions), then scale it
so that the width fits the text area width, center it, and clip it to
the text area. (See the attached image, on bottom.)
The background why I want to do this is that I'm making a small
template for presentations, and I'd like the users to insert images as
background without really having to think about if their proportions
fit or not.
Best regards, Mikael

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