[NTG-context] overlay page background missing
Mojca Miklavec
mojca.miklavec.lists at gmail.com
Thu Nov 2 18:15:06 CET 2006
On 11/2/06, Paul Jones wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to put together a wedding book. I would like a nice
> watermark behind the text on each page. Left page containing the word
> 'together', and right page containing the word 'forever'. I can get
> this done with an overlay, but it is always centered in the page. So
> after reading some threads about layers in overlays I thought this
> might work. Putting a layer into an overlay does give me the ability
> to positiong the words, but I can no longer get them to show up on all
> of the pages. Am I doing this in a resonable way? Why did the
> setupbackgrounds stop working when I put the layer into the overlay?
>
> Much thanks,
> Paul
>
> %output=pdf
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
>
> \setupcolors[state=start]
>
> \setupbackgrounds[page][background={WatermarkOverlay}]
>
> \startsetups WatermarkSetup
> \doifoddpageelse
> {\framed[frame=off,foregroundcolor=gray]
> {\scale[sx=12,sy=12]
> {\rotate[rotation=20.0]{forever}}}}
>
> {\framed[frame=off,foregroundcolor=gray]
> {\scale[sx=12,sy=12]
> {\rotate[rotation=20.0]{together}}}}
> \stopsetups
>
> \definelayer[WatermarkLayer]
> \setlayer[WatermarkLayer][hoffset=-4cm,voffset=12cm]{\setups{WatermarkSetup}}
>
> \defineoverlay[WatermarkOverlay][{\placelayer[WatermarkLayer]}]
>
>
> \starttext
> \framed[height=\textheight, width=\textwidth,
> background={WatermarkOverlay}, frame=on]{overlay frame}
> \chapter{first} \dorecurse{10}{\input tufte }
> \chapter{second} \dorecurse{10}{\input davis }
> \chapter{third} \dorecurse{10}{\input zapf }
> \stoptext
Does \setupheadertexts[\setups{WatermarkSetup}] help?
Mojca
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