From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/11865 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Idris S Hamid Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: pdf printing Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:00:33 -0600 Sender: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Message-ID: <3E959521.F6C1B8C7@lamar.colostate.edu> References: <3E958C05.83840275@lamar.colostate.edu> <20030410103451.004d8c60.wmcclain@salamander.com> 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 1049990582 8186 80.91.224.249 (10 Apr 2003 16:03:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 16:03:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl Thu Apr 10 18:03:01 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 193eVx-00027e-00 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:03:01 +0200 Original-Received: from ref.ntg.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09B1E10B69; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:03:32 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from mesa.acns.ColoState.EDU (mesa.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.130]) by ref.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C38A710B69 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 18:00:34 +0200 (MEST) Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (lamar.acns.colostate.edu [129.82.100.75]) by mesa.acns.ColoState.EDU (AIX4.3/8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA45824 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 10:00:33 -0600 Original-Received: from lamar.colostate.edu (ihamid.libarts.colostate.edu [129.82.187.166] (may be forged)) by lamar.colostate.edu (AIX5.1/8.11.0/8.8.8) with ESMTP id h3AFxm21110146 for ; Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:59:49 -0600 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en Original-To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-admin@ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.13 Precedence: bulk X-Reply-To: ishamid@colostate.edu 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:11865 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:11865 Bill McClain wrote: > 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: Actually, I was thinking about creating all 3 covers from the beginning as a .tex file, but using ConTeXt as a post processor instead of Acrobat is a great idea and I will definitely try it. Since my Arabic will already be compiled into the individual covers I can use pdfetex for the final full cover. Thnx!!! One thing I'd like to be able to control is making the front and back covers overlap the spine slightly. That is, I make the spine slightly wider than needed. Then I need to be able to make the two covers overlap more or less of the spine as demanded by the final printing. It would be neat to develop a generic means of doing this so that I only have to adjust a single parameter to fine-tune things. One hard part about compiling the covers as one file from the beginning is that the spine contains vertical material (like the title) and horizontal material (like a logo). What I do is compile the spine as one horizontal-text file, the logo as one horizontal-text file, convert them to pdf, rotate the spine to make it vertical, then copy and past the horizontal logo onto the vertical spine. Thnx again. If anybody can help with distiller and the rest of the things I mentioned, please let me know! Best Idris