Henning Hraban Ramm mailto:texml@fiee.net 20. Juli 2018 um 20:49

Hi Tomáš,

I don’t know of anything existing. Find attached what I use for a magazine – I include title and back pages in the main PDF (to get a complete issue for corrections and online distribution) and use that as externalfigure, just creating the spine anew. Hi Henning,

below is a modified version of your example where I changed a few things. 1. I used the "measure" commands to set the spine values, the advantage of the \measure is that it falls back to 0pt when you try to use a undefined value. 2. I determined the last page of the megazine with the \getfiguredimensions command, afterwards you can use the \noffigurepages command to get the last page of the document. 3. I put the layer and frame settings for the \setlayerframed command in separate arguments. 4. I got rid of the backgrounds setup for the layer. A better solution here is to create a page without margins which can be done with the "page" layout where you flush the collected content of the layer with the \flushlayer command. 5. I set the texts for the isse number and title with the \setvariables command. Wolfgang %%%%%% \definemeasure [SpineWidth] [6mm] \definemeasure [SpineOffset] [\dimexpr(\measure{SpineWidth}-9pt)/5\relax] \definepapersize [Cover] [width=\dimexpr420mm+\measure{SpineWidth}\relax, height=297mm] \setuppapersize [Cover] \setupexternalfigures [directory={_pdf}] \useexternalfigure [MAG] [magazine.pdf] \setvariables [cover] [issue={34}, topic={Topic}] \setuplayout [marking=on] \definelayer [whole] [width=\paperwidth, height=\paperheight] \starttext \startlayout [page] \setlayer [whole] [x=0mm, y=0mm] {\getfiguredimensions[MAG] \externalfigure[MAG][page=\noffigurepages]} \setlayer [whole] [x=\dimexpr210mm+\measure{SpineWidth}\relax, y=0mm] {\externalfigure[MAG][page=1]} \setlayerframed [whole] [x=210mm, y=20mm] [frame=off, offset=overlay, width=\measure{SpineWidth}, align=center] {\getvariable{cover}{issue}} \setlayerframed [whole] [x=210mm, y=92mm] [frame=off, offset=overlay, align=right, width=\measure{SpineWidth}, height=190mm] {\rotate [rotation=90, align={right,middle}, frame=off, height=\measure{SpineWidth}, width=190mm] {\vskip\measure{SpineOffset} \vbox{MAGAZINE\hfill\getvariable{cover}{topic}}}} \flushlayer [whole] \stoplayout \stoptext %%%%%%

On 7/21/2018 7:12 PM, Henning Hraban Ramm wrote:

Hi Wolfgang,

thank you so much!

If we put the externalfigure setup in front, we can also calculate the spine width:

\getfiguredimensions[MAG] \definemeasure [SpineWidth] [\dimexpr0.01mm * (\noffigurepages/2) + 0.5mm\relax]

Where 0.01mm is the paper thickness (100 g/m2) and 0.5mm is the folding addition – ask your printshop/bookbinder how much they need! it's on my agenda for a while to make some helpers for spines (esp handy for MP), there is actually already a variable for a while

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