12.3.25. Page¶

A special type of canvas that represents a page, adding some commodities as margins, headers and page numbers.

Pages often work as the outmost canvas, to which the @silk measures refer (see silk reference)

Pages are used for displaying several figures. for text, use the report object

12.3.25.1. Parameters¶

size: the size of the page. a vector of size 2 or one of the constants in this list below.
margins: sizes of the margins, as a vector with top, left, bottom, right margin distances, or percentages of page width (for vertical margins too).
margin.inner: size of inner margin
margin.outer: size of outer margin
margin.top: size of top margin
margin.bottom size of bottom margin
margin.left: size of left margin
margin.right: size of right margin
header : header to write in all the pages
header.odd : header for odd pages
header.even : header for even pages
footer.odd : footer for odd pages
footer.even : footer for even pages

It’s an error to define header and header.odd or header.even at the same time. Same goes for footer

active-area : a rectangle with the active area, where
number: number of the page

12.3.25.2. Methods¶

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12.3.25.3. Toponymics¶

Page produce the following toponymics

active-area: rectangle with the coordinates of the active area

12.3.25.4. Examples¶

example 1: printing an icosahedron and a cube on a A4:

p = page: .size A4
a, b = p.divide 0 2   # divide the page in two canvases
d = icosahedron : .diameter 200cm : .canvas a
c = cube : .diameter 100cm : .canvas b
p.save icosahedron.pdf

Example 2: mixing text with some

12.3.25.5. List of predefined page sizes¶

The following list is the scopped constants to which the parameter size can be set.

A sizes

~4A0:
~2A0:
~A0: A0 size , 841 x 1189 mm
~A1: A1 size , 594 x 841 mm
@A2: A2 size , 420 x 594 mm
@A3: A3 size , 1000x1000 mm
@A4: A4 size , 1000x1000 mm
@A5: A5 size , 1000x1000 mm
@A6: A6 size , 1000x1000 mm
@A7: A7 size , 1000x1000 mm
@A8: A8 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B0: A0 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B1: A1 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B2: A2 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B3: A3 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B4: A4 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B5: A5 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B6: A6 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B7: A7 size , 1000x1000 mm
@B8: A8 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C0: A’ size , 1000x1000 mm
@C1: A1 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C2: A2 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C3: A3 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C4: A4 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C5: A5 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C6: A6 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C7: A7 size , 1000x1000 mm
@C8: A8 size , 1000x1000 mm