Re: texexec: can it crop?

["Christopher Tipper" <chris.tipper@e-conomist.fsnet.co.uk>]

> Incredible what manipulations one wants. Fortunately this is rather trivial
> to implement. [a more efficient method is to embed it in the output
> routine, but that can make documents faulty. 

\slicepages[file.pdf][n=2] does 90% of the job.

without knowing how tex macros operate I suspect the problem with my output stems from the fact that the origin is bottom-left rather than top-left.

So if the slides are arranged like so

1  2
3  4

my output then becomes

3 4 1 2 etc. etc. i.e. starting from bottom-left. Maybe a fix is too complicated?

the second problem may also be a factor of how pdf's are designed. Basically the pages come out rotated 90 degrees clockwise. When I do

   \setuppapersize
     [\s!dummy,90][\s!dummy,landscape]

doesn't quite fix it, as Acrobat doesn't forget the page height, so one ends up with the graphic the right way up on a square bounding box.

Problems, problems... :-)

Christopher