Graphics

Basics

• Using graphics
• Floating objects
• Combinations (regular adjusted image placement)

Advanced

Build your graphics

• MetaPost & MetaFun
• TikZ/PGF
• Data plotting with Gnuplot
• Data plotting with MPgraph
• Data plotting with TikZ/Pgfplot
• FlowCharts
• Gantt charts
• Infinite Paper

Play with text

• Graphical text manipulation

ConTeXt tools

• Overlays local snippets that you can stack
• Layers on whole pages
• Logos, picture or text elements that appear on every page
• Image database with XML
• Collectors, alternative to overlays
• Chemical Structure Formulae with PPCHTeX
• Sharing graphics
• Including pages from PDF documents

Tricks

• Image 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.
• can play with Drop shadows
• Example photo page layout (Old Content)