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= Basics =
;[[Using Graphics|Using graphics]]: insert image, apply transformations, and advanced stuff.
;[[Floating_Objects|Floating objects]]: to place and number floating objects like figures, tables, paragraphs, etc.
;[[Combinations]]: adjusted images placement in rows and columns
= Build your graphics =; Basics[[MetaPost]]: the graphical programming language; [[MetaFun - MetaPost in ConTeXt]]:* ConTeXt graphical programming language, extension of MetaPost.; [[Using Graphics|Using Sharing graphics]]: Export MetaPost drawings as PDF, insert imageimport MetaPost drawings into MS Office, apply transformationsLibreOffice, and advanced stuffetc.:* ; [[Floating_ObjectsMPgraph|Floating objectsThe graph module]]: to place Data plotting module, and number floating objects like figuressome alternatives: [[TikZ]] (2016), tables[[Gnuplot]] (2012), paragraphs, etc[[Pgfplot]] (2009).:* ; [[Flow Charts]]; [[CombinationsScaling Rotating Mirroring Clipping]] : Old Content (regular adjusted image placement2010); [[Gantt charts]]
= Layers and stacks =; Build your graphics:* [[MetaPost]] & [[MetaFun]]:* Data plotting with [[MPgraph[the graph moduleLayers]] (2016), or some alternatives: [[TikZ]] (2016) ConTeXt's mechanism for absolute positioning and advanced techniques like background / foreground, , [[Gnuplot]] (2012), [[Pgfplot]] (2009)switch on / off.:* ; [[Flow Charts|FlowChartsOverlays]]:* [[Gantt charts]]:* [[Infinite Paper]]:* [[Graphical text manipulation|scale, mirror, rotate, clip]] (Old Content 2010)ConTeXt's mechanism to stack local snippets.
=== ConTeXt tools ===; [[Infinite Paper]]
* [[Overlays]]: ConTeXt's mechanism to stack local snippets = Specific topics and examples =* [[Layers]]: ConTeXt's mechanism for absolute positioning of elements and other advanced techniques like switching elements on and off. * [[LogosIncluding pages from PDF documents]]: ConTeXt 's mechanism to mage appear logos (picture or text elements) on every page
* [[Image Database|Image database]] with XML
* [[Collectors]], alternative to overlays* [[Sharing graphics]]* [[Including pages from PDF documents]] === Tricks === * [[Image Placement|Image size for their placement]]: if you’re using ConTeXt for complex layout tasks, you may need to calculate with image sizes. Often it makes sense to use Lua functions.* [[Drop_shadows|can Code to play with for Drop shadows]]
* [[Example photo page layout]] (Old Content)
* [[Animation]], page mainly dealing with JavaScript animations.
* [[Speech bubble]]
[[Category:Graphics]]

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