From: Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>
Subject: Re: 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:25:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44F46A90.1040304@boede.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1GHrcf-00008V-00@skye.ra.phy.cam.ac.uk>
Hi Snajoy,
May be you could approach that issue with preparing first a document on
A4 and for paper saving arrange the pages from the pdf with texexec:
texmfstart texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --2up yourfile.pdf
Willi
Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> Willi Egger wrote:
>
>> In your code you try to typeset two A5 portrait beneeth each other
>> on a A4 landscape, which is impossible.
>> ...
>> By the way if you want to typeset A5 on a A4 landscape without
>> intending to make a booklet, then you can use setuparranging[2SIDE]
>>
>
> Thanks for the explanations. Now I understand what's going on, and
> the wiki page makes more sense too. I'll add to the wiki shortly.
>
> A related problem is how to demagnify. Then you could have (1) a
> high-quality, final mode that generates A4 pages, and (2) a draft,
> papersaving mode that demagnifies them to A5 and combines them in
> pairs (a la 2SIDE) into A4. I see how to use modes to do everything
> except the demagnifying (Context seems, perhaps wisely, to ignore
> \magnification).
>
> -Sanjoy
>
> `Never underestimate the evil of which men of power are capable.'
> --Bertrand Russell, _War Crimes in Vietnam_, chapter 1.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-29 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-24 4:00 Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-08-24 6:54 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-24 11:10 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-08-24 17:48 ` Taco Hoekwater
2006-08-26 19:10 ` Willi Egger
2006-08-27 13:40 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-08-27 15:16 ` Willi Egger
2006-08-29 0:38 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-08-29 16:25 ` Willi Egger [this message]
2006-08-29 20:00 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-08 1:13 ` Mojca Miklavec
2006-09-06 4:00 ` Sanjoy Mahajan
2006-09-06 17:06 ` Willi Egger
2006-09-06 17:57 ` Aditya Mahajan
[not found] <mailman.485.1156434474.2039.ntg-context@ntg.nl>
2006-08-25 21:22 ` wwl
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