On 2012-06-07 "Rogers, Michael K" <mrog...@emory.edu> wrote:
> I played with your example a little and rooted around in grph-trf.mkiv. It > seems "max" selects how to scale based on which dimension in the original > figure is greater. Oddly, the dimensions of the MP figure are 142.26682pt by > 142.2377pt. So I suspect that "max" is selecting the width as the dimension > to scale to the specified width=3cm in your case. (Change the height of the > MP figure to 5.01cm and you'll see a change.) Whether that's a bug or > intended is a question for others. If not, then "max" is for this problem: > > Q. How to scale an image so that the largest dimension is 4cm? > A. \externalfigure [\jobname-img] [factor=max, width=4cm, height=4cm] > > If this is correct, I'd be glad to try to clarify the wiki. (I've not done > much wiki-ing.) > > I suppose you could fix your problem with something like > > \ifdim\desiredwidth>\desiredheight > \externalfigure [\jobname-img][width=\desiredwidth] > \else > \externalfigure [\jobname-img][height=\desiredheight] > \fi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
