From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/19014 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Zillig Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: imposition for a pdf file Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:58:26 +0100 Message-ID: <4237F532.80803@hoki.ibp.fhg.de> References: <20050316023354.69267.qmail@web80401.mail.yahoo.com> <4237E9A0.4020604@logosrl.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110966978 22709 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 09:56:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:56:18 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Mar 16 10:56:18 2005 Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBVGA-0008PD-AL for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:56:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9608112889; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:57:32 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 07570-01; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:57:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1788812822; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:20:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5262212819 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:20:02 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ronja.vet.uu.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06815-09 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 10:20:00 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailgw1.fraunhofer.de (mailgw1.fraunhofer.de [153.96.1.62]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7D86A12822 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:56:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mailgw1.fraunhofer.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mailgw1.fraunhofer.de (8.13.3+/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2G8uSu8029635 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:56:28 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from kso.hoki.ibp.fhg.de (dhcp-153-96-181-2.hoki.ibp.fhg.de [153.96.181.2]) by mailgw1.fraunhofer.de (8.13.3+/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2G8uReB029617 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:56:27 +0100 (CET) X-Authentication-Warning: mailgw1.fraunhofer.de: Host dhcp-153-96-181-2.hoki.ibp.fhg.de [153.96.181.2] claimed to be kso.hoki.ibp.fhg.de Original-Received: from hoki.ibp.fhg.de (ksi.hoki.ibp.fhg.de [153.96.143.2]) by kso.hoki.ibp.fhg.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id j2G8uR506465 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:56:27 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from [153.96.143.62] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hoki.ibp.fhg.de (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id j2G8uQu20235 for ; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 09:56:26 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: ksi.hoki.ibp.fhg.de: iscan owned process doing -bs User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: de-DE, de, en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <4237E9A0.4020604@logosrl.it> X-Fraunhofer-Email-Policy: accepted X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-MailScanner-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-MailScanner-To: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:19014 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:19014 I think something link texexec --pdfarra --noduplex --paper=A5A4 --print=2SIDE yourdocument.pdf should work. There is more information about in the the manual for texexec www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mtexexec.pdf Wolfgang luigi.scarso schrieb: > Ciro A. Soto wrote: > >>I have a pdf file with 660 letter-size pages. >>I would like to save toner in my printer by >>printing 2 or 4 pages in one single sheet of paper. >> >>Is it possible to do this with context? >>or any other alternative? >> >>Remember, I don't have the source file, only the pdf >>file. >> >>thank you >> >>Ciro >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>ntg-context mailing list >>ntg-context@ntg.nl >>http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >> >> >> > As usually, not a direct answer... > > Play with these script > %% > %% save it as test.tex > %% > \setupcolors[state=start] > \starttext > \dorecurse{660}% > {\startTEXpage[width=3cm,height=2cm] > \vbox to \vsize{\vss > \hbox to > \hsize{\hss\framed[width=2cm,align={middle,lohi},background=color,backgroundcolor=green]{p.\tfd\recurselevel}\hss} > \vss} > \stopTEXpage} > \stoptext > > %% > %% save as my-imp.tex > %% > %% \setuplayout here > \starttext > \centerline{% > \externalfigure[test][page=1] > \externalfigure[test][page=3] > \externalfigure[test][page=5] > \externalfigure[test][page=7] > \externalfigure[test][page=9] > \externalfigure[test][page=11] > } > \blank[1cm] > \centerline{% > \externalfigure[test][page=2] > \externalfigure[test][page=4] > \externalfigure[test][page=6] > \externalfigure[test][page=8] > \externalfigure[test][page=10] > \externalfigure[test][page=12] > } > \stoptext > > (you can create my-imp.tex by a script and choosing the appropriate number > for page=...., also use \setuplayout etc..) > > Also look for \setuparranging. > > luigi > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context