Re: including pdf

[Andrea Valle <valle@di.unito.it>]

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Hi Aditya,

thanks for your reply and sorry for my late reply, I've been kidnapped  
by another work...
I'd go with the layer solution.
But I don't know to insert a layer for each pdf page.
Could you please provide some hints?

Thanks a lot

Best

-a-



On Feb 2, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2011, Andrea Valle wrote:
>
>> Ok, let's reformulate partially
>>
>> If I have:
>>
>> \setuppapersize[A4]
>>
>> \setuppagenumbering[location=left, state=start]
>>
>> \starttext
>>
>> \copypages[pdf/Test.pdf][scale=1000]
>>
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Looking at the resulting pdf, it seems that the original pdf is  
>> mirrored (apart from half a line at the bottom of the paper,  
>> trunked).
>> Ok. But there are not page numbers (I guess they are coverd by the  
>> imported pdf)
>
> You can add a layer on top and set page numbers in the layer.
>
>> Now, so sum up my problem is:
>> - given a certain number of A4 pdf
>> - how to collect them in a unique pdf
>> - with successive page numbers
>> - and with refs, so that I can automagically create a TOC
>
> For a quick solution, you can try the cut-n-paste module[1]. It does  
> not create a TOC, so you will have to do that by hand (or a helper  
> macro).
>
> \usemodule[cut-n-paste]
>
> \newcount\colledpages
>
> \definecutNpaste[collection] 
> [n=1,text={\setups[page]},location=(OverlayWidth/2,1cm)]
>
> \startsetups[page]
>  \doglobal\increment{\collectedpages}%
>  \collectedpages
> \stopsetups
>
> \starttext
>
> \processcollection[name=paper1.pdf]
> \processcollection[name=paper2.pdf]
> \processcollection[name=paper3.pdf]
>
> \stoptext
>
> The location of the text is controled by the location key. This can  
> be any valid metapost coordinate.
>
> The module is actually meant for convert two column pdfs to one  
> column pdfs (for reading on an ebook device), so it an overkill for  
> just merging pages. You can however control how many pages to  
> insert, (using start and stop keys), and draw a grid on the page  
> (grid=yes), and trim the page (more complicated).
>
> But, as I said earlier, the simplest way is to just insert the page  
> number in a layer.
>
> Aditya
>
> [1]:https://github.com/adityam/cut-n-paste
>
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