From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/30567 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Willi Egger Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:25:52 +0200 Message-ID: <44F46A90.1040304@boede.nl> References: Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1156868971 2019 80.91.229.2 (29 Aug 2006 16:29:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 16:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Tue Aug 29 18:29:26 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org 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 1GI6S1-0002RR-Hr for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:28:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CB25D1FE11; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:28:32 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 13483-01; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:28:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 52CBB1FDF6; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:26:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 698F91FDF6 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:26:01 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 10754-06-2 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:25:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.24]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id A840F1FD71 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:25:53 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [127.0.0.1] (a80-126-172-1.adsl.xs4all.nl [80.126.172.1]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k7TGPrtE028924 for ; Tue, 29 Aug 2006 18:25:53 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from w.egger@boede.nl) User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.7 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: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:30567 Archived-At: 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. > _______________________________________________ > ntg-context mailing list > ntg-context@ntg.nl > http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context >