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On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 17:04:52 +0100
Taco Hoekwater
Hi Pablo,
I have had lots of problems with getting the correct figure dimensions for external images. In the end, I now use the code below. It is just as low-level and much more inefficient than your code, but it has not failed me yet.
\newdimen\MYfigurewidth \newdimen\MYfigureheight \unexpanded\def\MYgetfiguredimensions {\dodoubleempty\MYdogetfiguredimensions}
\def\MYdogetfiguredimensions[#1][#2]% {\setbox0=\hbox{\externalfigure[#1][#2]}% \MYfigurewidth=\wd0 \MYfigureheight=\ht0 }
And used like:
\MYgetfiguredimensions[cow.pdf][page=1] \ifdim\MYfigurewidth>\MYfigureheight … \fi
and I only use Hans’ \getfiguredimensions when I need to know a pdf page count.
It is not that Hans’ macro is bad, but external figures (especially PDF, but also PNGs) can be very misbehaved.
Actually forcing the inclusion into a box is crude but at least it will always return results identical to any actual desired inclusion.
I modified your code a bit to give it the ConTeXt touch. Alternative 1: \setupexternalfigures[location=default] \starttext \unexpanded\def\doifelselandscape {\dowithnextbox {\ifdim\nextboxwd>\nextboxht \expandafter\firstoftwoarguments \else \expandafter\secondoftwoarguments \fi} \hbox} \doifelselandscape{\externalfigure[cow.pdf]}{YES}{NO} \doifelselandscape{\externalfigure[mill.png]}{YES}{NO} \blank \unexpanded\def\doifelselandscapefigure#1#2% {\doifelselandscape{\externalfigure[#1][#2]}} \doifelselandscapefigure{cow.pdf}{}{YES}{NO} \doifelselandscapefigure{mill.png}{}{YES}{NO} \stoptext Alternative 2: \setupexternalfigures[location=default] \newif\iflandscape \unexpanded\def\checkiflandscape {\dowithnextbox {\ifdim\nextboxwd>\nextboxht \landscapetrue \else \landscapefalse \fi} \hbox} \starttext \checkiflandscape{\externalfigure[cow.pdf]} \iflandscape YES \else NO \fi \checkiflandscape{\externalfigure[mill.png]} \iflandscape YES \else NO \fi \stoptext Wolfgang