From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11862 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Bill McClain Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: pdf printing Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:34:51 -0500 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <20030410103451.004d8c60.wmcclain@salamander.com> References: <3E958C05.83840275@lamar.colostate.edu> Reply-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049989208 615 80.91.224.249 (10 Apr 2003 15:40:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 15:40:08 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Apr 10 17:40:03 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from ref.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.13] helo=ref.ntg.nl) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 193e9i-00009b-00 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 169CD10B67; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:40:33 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from barry.mail.mindspring.net (barry.mail.mindspring.net [207.69.200.25]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97A7E10B65 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 17:37:12 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from pmdeco1-98.rconnect.com ([209.163.54.98] helo=atipa.local) by barry.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 193e6w-0004os-00 for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 11:37:11 -0400 Original-Received: from atipa.local (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by atipa.local (8.12.6/8.12.6/SuSE Linux 0.6) with SMTP id h3AFYp19003801 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:34:51 -0500 Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl In-Reply-To: <3E958C05.83840275@lamar.colostate.edu> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.8.10claws (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:11862 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11862 On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:21:42 -0600 Idris S Hamid wrote: > Aside: Maybe there is way to make a single cover in ConTeXt instead of > combining three pdfs in Acrobat (which is a pain). I'd be happy to > learn:-) I can't help with distiller, but I create my covers in ConTeXt by making three pdf documents and combining them like so: \useexternalfigure[back][cover-back][type=pdf] \useexternalfigure[spine][cover-spine][type=pdf] \useexternalfigure[front][cover-front][type=pdf] \definepapersize[Cover][height=7.75in, width=10.625in] \setuppapersize[Cover][Cover] \setuplayout[topspace=0in, header=0in, footer=0in] \setuplayout[backspace=0in] \starttext \hbox to 10.625in{% {\externalfigure[back]}% {\externalfigure[spine]}% {\externalfigure[front]}% } \stoptext The dimensions depend on the book, of course. You could do the same thing with layers and direct x-y positioning, as shown on my help page. I'm sure this could all be done in one document, but I find it convenient to treat each of the back-spine-front as separate panels. -Bill -- Sattre Press The King in Yellow http://sattre-press.com/ by Robert W. Chambers info@sattre-press.com http://kiy.sattre-press.com/