Re: \combinepages with negative distance

[Tobias Burnus <tobias.burnus@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hello,

On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:15:07PM +0100, Willi Egger wrote:
> At 16:18 18.11.2003, Tobias wrote:
> > \setuppapersize[a5,landscape][a4,landscape]
> >  \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=-4cm]
> After some puzzeling I can come up with the following solution:
> \setuplayout
>   [header=0pt,
>    footer=1cm,
>    backspace=6cm,
>    topspace=3cm]
> \starttext
>     \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=2cm]
> \stoptext
Hmm, this shrinks the size of the included image, but I want to have
two full A5 pages with overlap a bit ("negative" distance between the
two included pages) thus I get more whitespace on one side (and loose
some whitespace in the middle where the two included pages meet).

Or in otherwords: I want to have this, but with distance=-1cm:

\setupoutput[pdftex]
\setuppapersize[a4,landscape][a4,landscape]
\setuplayout
  [topspace=0.3cm,
   backspace=1cm,
   header=0pt,
   footer=0cm,
   leftedge=0pt,
   width=297mm,
   height=210mm]
\setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]

\starttext
\combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=off,distance=0pt]\page
\combinepages[out.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=off,distance=0pt]
\stoptext

Tobias