That is totally awesome! It works except that there is some extra space
to the left of the picture [not really a problem]. Thanks a lot! :)
The code is now [with a nice clipped Escher picture] and it works:
\setupcolors[state=start]
\startMPclip{text clip}
clip currentpicture to fullcircle shifted (.5,.5)
xscaled \width yscaled \height ;
\stopMPclip
\startuseMPgraphic{clip outline}
draw fullcircle
xscaled \overlaywidth yscaled \overlayheight
withpen pencircle scaled 3mm
withcolor .625red ;
\stopuseMPgraphic
\defineoverlay
[clip outline]
[\useMPgraphic{clip outline}]
\starttext
\startTEXpage[scale=3000,offset=5pt]
{\framed
[background=clip outline,offset=overlay,frame=off]
{\clip
[nx=1,ny=1,mp=text clip]
{\externalfigure[escher_ascending][type=jpg,width=3cm,height=3cm]}}}
\stopTEXpage
\stoptext
On Tuesday, October 16, 2001, at 12:20 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> At 09:27 AM 10/16/2001 -0400, Arun Mangalam wrote:
>
>
>> My question is: is it possible and, if so, how do I create a
>> stand-alone pdf graphic for other graphics within ConTeXt? For
>> example, I would like to create a stand-alone graphic for the
>> following code [instead of a PDF page]:
>
> \startTEXpage[scale=4000,offset=3pt]
> Let me show you a little secret!
> \stopTEXpage
>
> From this you can deduce that there is a general underlaying mechanism
> at work -)
>
> Hans
