Hi, Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect? Thanks, Maurício
Am 2006-10-18 um 20:34 schrieb Maurício:
Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect?
Dou you mean what gets printed on the CD (or a separate label to be stuck on the CD)? Why not use a page of 12x12cm? Or what's your problem? If you mean booklets or inlays, I could send you my setup for backup CDs. Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://contextgarden.net http://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer)
Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect?
Dou you mean what gets printed on the CD (or a separate label to be stuck on the CD)? Why not use a page of 12x12cm? Or what's your problem?
If you mean booklets or inlays, I could send you my setup for backup CDs. (...)
What I need is to write labels to be glued to the CD. My problem is that the text (usually, a title and a music list) need to fit into a circular area. Also, text must be automatically resized to fit in that area, and no text should go inside the inner circle. Maurício
Maurício a écrit :
Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect?
Hi Mauricio, I have never tried to create CD labels but from my experience you should use overlay... Could you describe the geometry of the labels you use (if you use some) ? I can make an example without it but it can help to provide a full one... I need: - width and height of the page (if non-standard) - number of label per page and position of each label's center relatively to a corner of the page... A 2 min experiment gives: \setuppapersize[A4][A4] \setuppagenumbering[state=stop] \setupcolors[state=start] \startuseMPgraphic{CDShape} draw fullcircle scaled 12cm; draw fullcircle scaled 4cm; \stopuseMPgraphic \starttext \startproperty[hidden] I need some text to get the page... but also need to hide this text ! \stopproperty \definelayer[PageLayer][position=yes] \setupbackgrounds[page][background=PageLayer] \setuplayer[PageLayer][position=no,corner=bottom,height=\paperheight] % sample geometry \setlayer[PageLayer][x=.5\paperwidth,y=.25\paperheight,location=c]{\useMPgraphic{CDShape}} \setlayer[PageLayer][x=.5\paperwidth,y=.75\paperheight,location=c]{\useMPgraphic{CDShape}} \page \startproperty[hidden] I need some text to get the page... but also need to hide this text ! \stopproperty % another sample geometry \setlayer[PageLayer][x=.35\paperwidth,y=.30\paperheight,location=c]{\useMPgraphic{CDShape}} \setlayer[PageLayer][x=.65\paperwidth,y=.70\paperheight,location=c]{\useMPgraphic{CDShape}} \stoptext You can draw, clip, write whatever you want and where you want... The circular shape are just to demonstrate positionning and can help to check... You could use Metafun to do some advanced text manipulation (like shaped texts or followtoken texts...) No more to say... Renaud
Has anyone ever tried to use Context to create music CD labels? Any tips on what should I do, pages I can read or results I can expect?
I have never tried to create CD labels but from my experience you should use overlay... Could you describe the geometry of the labels you use (if you use some) ?
I don't have the exact dimenstions. You can check it here (Open Office document): www.pimaco.com.br/files/gabaritos/Gabarito_CDpply_CARTA.sxw
I can make an example without it but it can help to provide a full one... I need: - width and height of the page (if non-standard) - number of label per page and position of each label's center relatively to a corner of the page...
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You can draw, clip, write whatever you want and where you want... The circular shape are just to demonstrate positionning and can help to check...
You could use Metafun to do some advanced text manipulation (like shaped texts or followtoken texts...)
I will learn Metafun right now. Do you think I can get Context to write a music list in a way that the text fits automatically into the label? I would like to create a standard template for labels so that I could change only the music list and title. That list could be as small as 3 songs or as big as 30 songs organized into sections. Maurício
Maurício a écrit :
I don't have the exact dimenstions. You can check it here (Open Office document):
www.pimaco.com.br/files/gabaritos/Gabarito_CDpply_CARTA.sxw
dead link... but it's ok with the word "gabaritos"... The format you use is letter, right (just to be sure since here we use A4) ?
I will learn Metafun right now. Do you think I can get Context to write a music list in a way that the text fits automatically into the label? I would like to create a standard template for labels so that I could change only the music list and title. That list could be as small as 3 songs or as big as 30 songs organized into sections.
You could probably do that with shaped text but for section, I'm affraid that you'll have to manage it by hand (can't use \section in shaped text)... I'll make an example asap... Renaud
Renaud AUBIN wrote:
Maurício a écrit :
I don't have the exact dimenstions. You can check it here (Open Office document):
www.pimaco.com.br/files/gabaritos/Gabarito_CDpply_CARTA.sxw
dead link... but it's ok with the word "gabaritos"... The format you use is letter, right (just to be sure since here we use A4) ?
It's working now, I've just downloaded that file. I belive that paper is letter, although A4 is usually a lot more common here.
I will learn Metafun right now. Do you think I can get Context to write a music list in a way that the text fits automatically into the label? I would like to create a standard template for labels so that I could change only the music list and title. That list could be as small as 3 songs or as big as 30 songs organized into sections.
You could probably do that with shaped text but for section, I'm affraid that you'll have to manage it by hand (can't use \section in shaped text)... I'll make an example asap...
Sections are not that important, as long as I can have different formats for some lines of text, and I'm sure that's not a problem. For sure, an example would be great! Maurício
Maurício a écrit :
It's working now, I've just downloaded that file. I belive that paper is letter, although A4 is usually a lot more common here. Sections are not that important, as long as I can have different formats for some lines of text, and I'm sure that's not a problem. For sure, an example would be great!
I'll let you do the job for positionning. You'll find as attached an example... Since it's not obvious to me to make a shapetext with a holed shape (I have tried some tricks but failed), I reserved 2 text areas: 1. (test 1) song list for example 2. (test 2|framedtext) Author & title This example assumes that : - the first label is centered on x=.5\paperwidth y=.75\paperwidth - the second is centered on x=.5\paperwidth y=.25\paperheight You can even put a background image if you want, using overlay and clip... Renaud
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I'll let you do the job for positionning. You'll find as attached an example... Since it's not obvious to me to make a shapetext with a holed shape (I have tried some tricks but failed), I reserved 2 text areas: 1. (test 1) song list for example 2. (test 2|framedtext) Author & title
This example assumes that : - the first label is centered on x=.5\paperwidth y=.75\paperwidth - the second is centered on x=.5\paperwidth y=.25\paperheight
You can even put a background image if you want, using overlay and clip...
Renaud (...)
Thanks! That's exactly what I need. Best, M.
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