Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-08 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi Otared, thanks for the report. No problems here with my old Acrobat Pro 9.52 (syntax checks shows no errors) or PDF-XChange Viewer 2.5 on Windows7 Ultimate 64-bit. You can try to compile it on your machine (full source is included), if you have a recent IM version installed. Sorry, I can't

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 06.12.2012 19:05, schrieb Aditya Mahajan: On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi all, a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at https://www.wuala.com/indiego/public/ConTeXt/drops/?key=caiCGLasLFmJ Taken from the included documentation.. [..] 'drops' is a

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 06.12.2012 19:18, schrieb Wolfgang Schuster: Am 06.12.2012 um 19:05 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi all, a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 06.12.2012 19:35, schrieb Marco: On 2012–12–06 Aditya Mahajan wrote: I always thought that shadows were possible to do in PDF (after all TikZ does it using some type of PDF primitives). It is. I use MetaPost to draw the shadows using the shading mechanism: withshading(circular,

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Marco Patzer
On 2012–12–07 Peter Rolf wrote: Am 06.12.2012 19:35, schrieb Marco: On 2012–12–06 Aditya Mahajan wrote: I always thought that shadows were possible to do in PDF (after all TikZ does it using some type of PDF primitives). It is. I use MetaPost to draw the shadows using the shading

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 07.12.2012 um 13:01 schrieb Peter Rolf indi...@gmx.net: I would also create a new namespace for the \setupdrops command because currently it uses the “module” namespace. \def\dosetupdrops[#1]% {\iffirstargument\getparameters[\??module drops:][#1,{\c!setup=}]\else % never parameter

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Peter Rolf
Am 07.12.2012 13:49, schrieb Marco Patzer: On 2012–12–07 Peter Rolf wrote: Am 06.12.2012 19:35, schrieb Marco: On 2012–12–06 Aditya Mahajan wrote: I always thought that shadows were possible to do in PDF (after all TikZ does it using some type of PDF primitives). It is. I use MetaPost to

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Otared Kavian
Hi Peter, Thank you for your very nice module. For your information, I wanted just to report an issue I noticed with Adobe Reader (Version: 11.0.0 (11.0.0)) on Mac OS X 10.8: when I try to open the file « pile.pdf » (which is in your « examples » directory) Adobe Reader crashes and there is no

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-07 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/7/2012 7:02 PM, Otared Kavian wrote: Hi Peter, Thank you for your very nice module. For your information, I wanted just to report an issue I noticed with Adobe Reader (Version: 11.0.0 (11.0.0)) on Mac OS X 10.8: when I try to open the file « pile.pdf » (which is in your « examples »

[NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-06 Thread Peter Rolf
Hi all, a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at https://www.wuala.com/indiego/public/ConTeXt/drops/?key=caiCGLasLFmJ Taken from the included documentation.. [..] 'drops' is a small extension for ConTeXt, that allows you to add drop shadows to rectangular regions (so

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-06 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi all, a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at https://www.wuala.com/indiego/public/ConTeXt/drops/?key=caiCGLasLFmJ Taken from the included documentation.. [..] 'drops' is a small extension for ConTeXt, that allows you to add

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-06 Thread Wolfgang Schuster
Am 06.12.2012 um 19:05 schrieb Aditya Mahajan adit...@umich.edu: On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi all, a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at https://www.wuala.com/indiego/public/ConTeXt/drops/?key=caiCGLasLFmJ Taken from the included

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-06 Thread Marco
On 2012–12–06 Aditya Mahajan wrote: I always thought that shadows were possible to do in PDF (after all TikZ does it using some type of PDF primitives). It is. I use MetaPost to draw the shadows using the shading mechanism: withshading(circular, urcorner bottom_left, urcorner bottom_left,

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/6/2012 7:05 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: On Thu, 6 Dec 2012, Peter Rolf wrote: Hi all, a first version of the 'drops'-module (MkIV only) is available at https://www.wuala.com/indiego/public/ConTeXt/drops/?key=caiCGLasLFmJ Taken from the included documentation.. [..] 'drops' is a small

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/6/2012 7:05 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: I always thought that shadows were possible to do in PDF (after all TikZ does it using some type of PDF primitives). Since you are the PDF expert, I am interested in knowing why you choose to go the ImageMagic route. not so efficient but it shows a

Re: [NTG-context] drops module (draft)

2012-12-06 Thread Hans Hagen
On 12/6/2012 7:35 PM, Marco wrote: On 2012–12–06 Aditya Mahajan wrote: I always thought that shadows were possible to do in PDF (after all TikZ does it using some type of PDF primitives). It is. I use MetaPost to draw the shadows using the shading mechanism: withshading(circular,