Paper size & page arranging

Paper size & page arranging

[Mojca Miklavec]

The command

	\setuplayout[location=middle,scale=.5]

scales the document correctly, but if I use

	\setuparranging[2*2]

for example, the original scaling is broken.

What effect exactly does 'scale=...' in \definepapersize have?


There must surely exist a very simple and elegant solution to typeset 
usual A4 pages scaled down to A5, so that two pages are placed on one in 
lanscape mode, like in:

1. page (A4 landscape with two A4 pages scaled to A5)
*---*---*
|   |   |
| 1 | 2 |
|   |   |
*---*---*
2. page
*---*---*
|   |   |
| 3 | 4 |
|   |   |
*---*---*

... or that "any" page number (n*n or 2n*n in landscape mode, maybe some 
other number if page proportions are different; and some blank space is 
left on the borders) is placed on one page, like in (for 6*3):

*--*--*--*--*--*--*
| 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6|
*--*--*--*--*--*--*
| 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|
*--*--*--*--*--*--*
|13|14|15|16|17|18|
*--*--*--*--*--*--*


\setuparranging[...] does the job, but it is only suitable if someone 
really wants to make a booklet out of it and one has to supply 
"original" page sizes (for example A6 to be printed as 2*4 on A4).

Thank you,
	Mojca

Re: Paper size & page arranging

[Willi Egger]

Hi  Mojca,

The most elegant way would of course be to have the document setup with 
suitable pages. Then you can use the \setuparranging[XY] command, which 
is basically meant for preparing businesscards and labels. This looks 
then like

\setupoutput[pdftex]
\setuppapersize [A5,portrait][A4,landscape]
\setuppaper
         [dx=2mm,
         dy=0mm,
         nx=2,
         ny=1,
         margin=0,
         width=297mm,
         height=210mm]
\setuplayout
         [topspace=10mm]

\setuparranging[XY]

\starttext
\showframe
\chapter{Ward}
	\input ward
\chapter{Tufte}
	\input tufte
\chapter{Knuth}
	\input Knuth
\stoptext

If your document is already a PDF with A4 pages in it, you might use the 
following command to arrange the pages:

texexec --pdfcombine --combination=2*2 inputfile.pdf --result=outputfile

This approach is meant for more than two pages per sheet.

Yet another approach could be

texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --print=2up --result=outputfile 
inputfile.pdf

As the last two texexec statements work on pdf files, the extension has 
to be stated for the inputfile.
For the option paper all DIN papersizes from A0 to A9 can be used.

There is an article published in the MAPS28/2002. This issue of the MAPS 
will be free for downloading in the next days.

Kind regards

Willi

Mojca Miklavec wrote:
> The command
> 
>     \setuplayout[location=middle,scale=.5]
> 
> scales the document correctly, but if I use
> 
>     \setuparranging[2*2]
> 
> for example, the original scaling is broken.
> 
> What effect exactly does 'scale=...' in \definepapersize have?
> 
> 
> There must surely exist a very simple and elegant solution to typeset 
> usual A4 pages scaled down to A5, so that two pages are placed on one in 
> lanscape mode, like in:
> 
> 1. page (A4 landscape with two A4 pages scaled to A5)
> *---*---*
> |   |   |
> | 1 | 2 |
> |   |   |
> *---*---*
> 2. page
> *---*---*
> |   |   |
> | 3 | 4 |
> |   |   |
> *---*---*
> 
> ... or that "any" page number (n*n or 2n*n in landscape mode, maybe some 
> other number if page proportions are different; and some blank space is 
> left on the borders) is placed on one page, like in (for 6*3):
> 
> *--*--*--*--*--*--*
> | 1| 2| 3| 4| 5| 6|
> *--*--*--*--*--*--*
> | 7| 8| 9|10|11|12|
> *--*--*--*--*--*--*
> |13|14|15|16|17|18|
> *--*--*--*--*--*--*
> 
> 
> \setuparranging[...] does the job, but it is only suitable if someone 
> really wants to make a booklet out of it and one has to supply 
> "original" page sizes (for example A6 to be printed as 2*4 on A4).
> 
> Thank you,
>     Mojca
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