Hans, Thank you very much for your code. Both types of the stationary come out smoothly. There is however a small bug in it. I need a different stationary starting from every second page of my letter. If my file contains 4 letters consisting of 8 pages, his means the following: letter 1 -- page 1 -- stationary-1.pdf letter 1 -- page 2 -- stationary-2.pdf letter 2 -- page 1 -- stationary-1.pdf letter 2 -- page 2 -- stationary-2.pdf ... The code, however, does the following: letter 1 -- page 1 -- stationary-1.pdf letter 1 -- page 2 -- stationary-2.pdf letter 2 -- page 1 -- stationary-2.pdf letter 2 -- page 2 -- stationary-2.pdf ... That's to say, there is only one sheet with stationary-1, all other pages are printed on stationary-2. Do you see a possibility to adapt this? Thanks in advance. Kind regards, Robert

Rob Ermers wrote:

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Dear Contexers,

I have succeeded in creating letters on my pdf stationary-1. Beautiful.

Now I want to print the second and following pages on paper with on a slightly different stationary (stationary-2), as is costumary.

Does anyone how to set this up?

(The example on the wiki is too complicated for me. I sticked to sample files from Hans Hagen, which makes it possible to use an xml address database.)

The present set up for the background is given below.

Kind regards,

Robert Ermers

\useexternalfigure[achtergrond][stationary-1.pdf][] \definelayer[achtergrond]

\setupbackgrounds[page][state=repeat,background={achtergrond}]

\setlayer[achtergrond][x=0in,y=0in]{\externalfigure[stationary-1.pdf]}

An option is to use the logo features but since layers are more fun i will probably turn that into an optional module some day (is anyone using it?)

put this in cont-new.tex:

\unprotect \unexpanded\def\flushlayer[#1]% {\doifelsevalue{\??ll#1\c!state}\v!next {\global\letvalue{\??ll#1\c!state}\v!start} % dangerous, stack-built-up {\doifelsevalue{\??ll#1\c!state}\v!continue {\global\letvalue{\??ll#1\c!state}\v!repeat} % dangerous, stack-built-up {\doifelsevalue{\??ll#1\c!doublesided}\v!yes {\doifundefinedelse{\@@layerbox#1}% {\dodoflushlayerA[#1]} {\doifbothsidesoverruled \dodoflushlayerB\v!left [#1]% left \orsideone \dodoflushlayerB\v!right[#1]% right \orsidetwo \dodoflushlayerB\v!left [#1]% left \od}} {\dodoflushlayerA[#1]}}}} \protect

Then you can say:

\definelayer[achtergrond-1][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight] \definelayer[achtergrond-2][width=\paperwidth,height=\paperheight,state=continue]

\setupbackgrounds[page][background={achtergrond-1,achtergrond-2}]

\setlayer[achtergrond-1][preset=lefttop] {\externalfigure[stationary-1.pdf]} \setlayer[achtergrond-2][preset=leftbottom]{\externalfigure[stationary-2.pdf]}

\starttext

test \page test \page test \page test \page

\stoptext

(i added the 'continue' option)

Hans