Many thanks to everyone for advice - I combined various suggestions and managed to end up with a landscape picture occupying the full page. The various options for removing the running headline seemed not to work - I was hopeful that headerstate=empty might, but \placefigure seems not to admit this as an option, and I didn't want to get too involved with Hraban's elegant solution for bleeding illustrations (which may well be useful in future work). At any rate, I cheated by putting this hamfisted code in front of the caption: \llap{\color[white]{\smash{\vrule height 310pt depth 24pt width 24pt}}\kern 12pt} That doesn't remove the headline but it obliterates it! Best wishes John *🇪🇺 * Слава Україні! * 🇺🇦* http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail Virus-free.www.avg.com http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=webmail <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> On Mon, 7 Jul 2025 at 22:27, Wolfgang Schuster < wolfgang.schuster.lists@gmail.com> wrote:

Am 07.07.2025 um 16:22 schrieb John Was:

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Hello

Is it possible to suppress the headline on pages which are entirely occupied by an illustration? This is sometimes useful to maximize the space available for the picture, especially a landscape picture with a lot of detail.

I have used 'orientation=270' to position a figure in landscape mode, with the width set to the vertical height of the page (or close to it if that would make the overall size too large). But I haven't worked out how to set the caption underneath the figure (that is, rotate the caption also, using the full width of the figure): the caption appears at the bottom of the page as for a portrait-oriented figure, which is inconvenient for the reader.

You already got a few suggestions but for a better answer it is always helpful to provide a minimal example which shows what you have tried so far. To create an example without the need for external ressources you can either use one of the included sample images

%%%% begin example \setupexternalfigures[location=default]

\starttext

\startcombination[2*2] {\externalfigure[spider.eps][combination]}{spider.eps} {\externalfigure [mill.png][combination]}{mill.png} {\externalfigure [cow.pdf][combination]}{cow.pdf} {\externalfigure[hacker.jpg][combination]}{hacker.png} \stopcombination

\stoptext %%%% end example

or use the dummy library to add random backgrounds to images.

%%%% begin example \useMPlibrary[dum]

\starttext

\startcombination[3*1] {\externalfigure [wide][width=6cm,height=4cm]}{} {\externalfigure[equal][width=4cm,height=4cm]}{} {\externalfigure [tall][width=4cm,height=6cm]}{} \stopcombination

\stoptext %%%% end example

Wolfgang

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