David Antos wrote:

Hello,

I have

\defineoverlay[Wave][\useMPgraphic{Wave}]

\startuseMPgraphic{Wave} ... \stopuseMPgraphic

\setupbackgrounds[footer][text][background={Wave}]

The problem is that the graphics is not re-computed on every page, although I pretty convinced it should.

On the opposite, when I set \setupbackgrounds[text][text][background={Wave}] it works perfectly well. (The difference is in [footer] vs. [text].)

An ugly workaround is to call \setupbackgrounds on every page, but it's not nice at all. What went wrong?

as already mentioned (by taco): \setupbackgrounds[state=repeat] only page and text area backgrounds are recalculated each page (otherwise the speed penalty is too big] an option is to do something: \setupbackgrounds[page][background=PageBackground] \defineoverlay[PageBackground][\reuseMPgraphic{PageBackground}] \startreusableMPgraphic{PageBackground} StartPage ; fill Field[Text][Footer] withcolor red ; StopPage ; \stopreusableMPgraphic (see metafun manual for details on the page stuff) Hans ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------