Re: stickers

["luigi.scarso" <luigi.scarso@logosrl.it>]

Hans Hagen wrote:

> luigi.scarso wrote:
>
>> I have a problem about stickers and imposition;
>
>
> there's a special x/y one for stickers


Ok, no code, only an example of the problem.

Let S a pdf  with 17 pages;
let S(0) the first page, and S(16) the last page.

Let T the "target pdf" with 8 box which each will cointain an S(j), j=0..16

I draw now  a simple schema for  an empty pages of T
T(.)
[] [] [] [] [] [] [] []        

After 'imposing' , T should be
T(0)
[S(0)] [S(3)] [S(6)] [S(9) ]  [S(12)] [S(15)] [] []

T(1)
[S(1)] [S(4)] [S(7)] [S(10)]  [S(13)] [S(16)] [] []

T(2)
[S(2)] [S(5)] [S(8)] [S(11)]  [S(14)] []      [] []


I call it 'make a pile' .
Now, once we have fixed the number of the box (8 in this examples), give S
we want to make T.

I'have some solutions that use perl/sort, but they are not nice.

> indeed, the more you tex, the more you find in it

yes, but every time i touch it i think "i'm not ready now, maybe 
tomorrow....".
Really.
(and i don' want touch Metafont)

luigi