Re: (A possible) way to change the background color of pdf

[Hans Bezemer]

On 21/06/15 03:14PM, Tadziu Hoffmann wrote:
> 
> > I want to have a black background with green text for
> > my slides.
> > 
> > If I'm correct this can't be set within groff.
> 
> You can draw a filled polygon (rectangle) using \D'P ...'
> covering the whole page at the beginning of each page,
> before outputting any text.  Example:
> 
> 
> .\" a4 land
> .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------
> .nr PL 21.0c \" A4 landscape height
> .nr PW 29.7c \" A4 landscape width
> .pl \n(PLu
> .po 2c
> .ll \n(PWu-\n(.ou-\n(.ou
> .gcolor green
> .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------
> .\" set up a separate environment for headers and footers
> .\" to avoid interference with the running text
> .ev 1
> .vs 0
> .lt \n(PWu-\n(.ou-\n(.ou
> .fcolor black
> .gcolor yellow
> .ev
> .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------
> .de BP
> .ev 1
> \Z'\h'-\\n(.ou'\D'P 0 \\n(PLu \\n(PWu 0 0 -\\n(PLu''
> .sp |2c
> .ev
> ..
> .de EP
> .ev 1
> .sp |\\n(PLu-1.5c
> .tl '\\n[year]/\\n[mo]/\\n[dy]''\\n%'
> .bp
> .ev
> ..
> .wh 0 BP
> .wh -3c EP
> .\" ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Hello, world!
> 
> 

Dear Tadziu and Deri,

I've tried to build the dev-* branch but I'll need to look
into that later, had some errors running make.

Tadziu's code works smooth so will use that for now, thanks.

Kind regards,

Hans