From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
Cc: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Page reordering
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 1999 11:26:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <375E335D.653B446B@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <375E1DB4.BC5BE238@gmd.de>
Matthew Baker wrote:
> Does Context or PDFTeX have any means of reordering pages? Also, is it
> possible to output such that
> two A4 pages are placed side by side on an A3 page? My motivation is
> this: I write an A4 doc which is
> bound by printing pages onto A3, double-sided, then stapling in the
> middle and folding in half. This
> means pages have to be printed in non-consecutive order and have to be
> placed side-by-side on A3.
> My solution in the past has been to convert to PostScript and use
> pstools. Unfortunately I seem to be
> making very big docs these days and the PS is prohibitively big so my
> only other option is to photocopy
> the A4 pages onto A3 manually. Yuck.
This feature is built in context. If you upload the dutch beta manual,
you will see samples (around page 35). (This chapter was published in
the maps, of which some back issues are still available I think.)
Arranging pages is a last stage activity (once all references are sirted
out, so one has to comment the arrange setup lines when doing normal run
and uncomment them in the last one.)
But, to serve your purpose, there is texexec. Try:
texexec --help paper print
so:
texexec --print=up --paper=A4A3 --pdf filename
Another feature is:
texexec --pages=odd --result=temp-1 filename
texexec --pages=1,3,4,5 --result=temp-2 filename
Can be of use sometimes. So, your wishes already are honored -)
will do the job, given that you use A4 papersize in your document. No
need to setup things in the file.
> Alteratively, does anyone know of the existance of a PDF equivalent to
> pstools? Is the PDF structure
> sufficiently simple such that this would be possible?
I asked Thanh to look into selective pdf page inclusion (\pdfimage page
3 {filename} primitive). When available, writing a utility that
manipulates the pages will be a breeze (probably a tk script generating
context tex files and pdftex collecting things).
> Our Email is currently broken and I can't use Pine. Consequently, I'm
> using Netscape Mail for the
> first time. I hope this works ok.
Looks ok to me.
Hans
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