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\attachment

Summary

The instances of \attachment are used for inclusion of attachment files into the PDF output.

Instances

\attachment

Settings instance

\ATTACHMENT[...][...=...,...]
[...]name
...=...,...inherits from \setupattachment

Description

Additional documentation can be found in the "Interaction" manual.

Examples

Use of attachment with customized symbol (the file "myattachment.txt" should exists, that why the demo here does not show attachment...)

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\setuppapersize[A6,landscape]

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\setupinteraction[state=start]                      % #0 - Activate interaction

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\startuseMPgraphic{myattachmentsymbol}  % #1 - Draw a symbol, here a paperclip!
path pa;
numeric u; u=1mm;
numeric Ra; Ra=u/2;  numeric Rb; Rb=1.5Ra;  numeric Rc; Rc=1.35Rb;
numeric La; La=3.5u; numeric Lb; Lb=-La/10; numeric Lc; Lc=1.2*La;

pair a[];
a0=(0,0);
a1=(La,0);        a2=(La+Ra,-Ra);         a3=(La,-2Ra);
a4=(Lb,-2Ra);     a5=(Lb-Rb,-2Ra+Rb);     a6=(Lb,-2Ra+2Rb);
a7=(Lc,-2Ra+2Rb); a8=(Lc+Rc,-2Ra+2Rb-Rc); a9=(Lc,-2Ra+2Rb-2Rc);
a10=(1u,-2Ra+2Rb-2Rc);

pa := (a0--a1..a2..a3--a4..a5..a6--a7..a8..a9--a10) rotated 45;

path pb;
pb := fullcircle scaled (2.2*(Lc-Lb-Rb)) shifted (center(pa)) ;
fill pb withcolor 0.5white;
pickup pencircle scaled (1.5*(Rb-Ra))   ;
draw pa  withcolor white;
\stopuseMPgraphic

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\definesymbol                             % #2 - Define the drawing as a symbol
  [myattachmentsym]
  [\useMPgraphic{myattachmentsymbol}]

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\setupattachments                          % #3 - Use the symbol for attachment
  [symbol=myattachmentsym]

%------------------------------------------------------------------------------

\starttext                                                        % #4 - Use it

Text before
\attachment
  [file={myattachment.txt},
   title={attachment title},
   location=rightmargin]
and after.

\stoptext

produces


Notes

See also

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