Re: @PageBackground and @Scale

[Jeff Kingston]

This point is explicitly covered in the section of the User's Guide
on page backgrounds.  @Scale scales in both directions by the same
factor until the full page width is achieved, without checking the
page height.

Jeff 


On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 22:48:33 +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
  > 
  > Hi,
  > 
  > I wrote slides (with @PageType { A4 }) with the following background:
  > 
  >   @PageBackground { @Scale 180d @Rotate @CopyRight }
  > 
  > I expected the @Scale to make the following object fit on the page.
  > However, it turns out that it produced a background bigger than the page
  > and the slides got higher than A4.
  > 
  > I thought it would be impossible to make a document bigger than its
  > @PageType.  Any idea of why Lout behaves like this?
  > 
  > Thanks,
  > Ludovic.