Re: Problems with texexec & pdfarrange

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

Hi,

In the meantime the paper command option is --paperformat=A4A5.
in my opinion the print command option is --print=2up

Willi

Marcus Vinicius Mesquita de So wrote:
> Hello, everybody
>
> In page 8 of the mtexexec manual we can see the following command:
>
> texexec --pdfarrange --paper=A5A4 --print=up  live.pdf
>
> If I try it with a PDF file, for example,
>
>
> texexec --pdfarrange --paper=A5A4 --print=up   --print gri.pdf
>
> I get an error message:
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again>
>                    A
> \@@ppoffset ->A
>                5A4
> \calculatepaperoffsets ...lue {\??pp #1\c!offset }
>                                                   \divide 
> \scratchdimen \arr...
> <argument> ...dth }\fi \calculatepaperoffsets {A4}
>                                                   \xdef \papersize {A4}
> \firstofoneargument #1->#1
>
> \next1 #1,->\docommand {#1}
>                            \doprocesscommaitem
> ...
> l.3 \setuplayout
>
> ?
>
>
> Do I miss something?
>
>
> Greetings
>
> Marcus Vinicius
>
>
> Details from the command:
>
> D:\context>texexec --pdfarrange --paper=A5A4 gri.pdf
>
> TeXExec | arranging file gri.pdf
> TeXExec | processing document 'texexec'
> TeXExec | no ctx file found
> TeXExec | tex processing method: context
> TeXExec | writing option file texexec.top
> TeXExec | using randomseed 761
> TeXExec | tex engine: pdftex
> TeXExec | tex format: cont-en
> TeXExec | progname: context
> This is pdfTeX, Version 3.141592-1.40.0-beta-20060213 (Web2c 7.5.5)
>  \write18 enabled.
>  (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/web2c/natural.tcx)
> entering extended mode
> (./texexec.tex
>
> ConTeXt  ver: 2006.11.16 12:02 MK II  fmt: 2006.11.16  int: 
> english/english
>
> language        : language en is active
> system          : cont-new loaded
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
> systems         : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-new.mkii))
> system          : cont-old loaded
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
> loading         : Context Old Macros
> )
> system          : cont-fil loaded
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
> loading         : Context File Synonyms
> )
> system          : cont-sys loaded
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/user/cont-sys.tex)
> bodyfont        : 12pt rm is loaded
> language        : patterns nl->texnansi:texnansi->1->2:3 
> nl->ec:ec->2->2:3 fr->
> texnansi:texnansi->3->2:3 fr->ec:ec->4->2:3 
> de->texnansi:texnansi->5->2:3 de->e
> c:ec->6->2:3 it->texnansi:texnansi->7->2:3 it->ec:ec->8->2:3 
> pt->texnansi:texna
> nsi->9->2:3 pt->ec:ec->10->2:3 hr->ec:ec->11->2:3 pl->pl0:pl0->12->2:3 
> pl->ec:e
> c->13->2:3 pl->qx:qx->14->2:3 cz->il2:il2->15->2:3 cz->ec:ec->16->2:3 
> sk->il2:i
> l2->17->2:3 sk->ec:ec->18->2:3 sl->ec:ec->19->2:3 ru->t2a:t2a->21->2:3 
> en->ec:e
> c->22->2:3 uk->ec:ec->23->2:3 us->ec:ec->24->2:3 agr->agr:agr->25->2:3 
> da->ec:e
> c->26->2:3 sv->ec:ec->27->2:3 af->ec:ec->28->2:3 no->ec:ec->29->2:3 
> deo->ec:ec-
> >30->2:3 es->ec:ec->31->2:3 ca->ec:ec->32->2:3 la->ec:ec->33->2:3 
> ro->ec:ec->34
> ->2:3 tr->ec:ec->35->2:3 fi->ec:ec->37->2:3 hu->ec:ec->38->2:3 loaded
> specials        : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
> system          : texexec.top loaded
> (./texexec.top
> specials        : loading definition file tpd
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
> specials        : loading definition file fdf
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex
> (d:\context\usr\local\context\tex\texmf-local/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.mkii))
> specials        : fdf loaded
> )
> specials        : fdf,tpd loaded
> )
> systems         : system commands are enabled
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again>
>                    A
> \@@ppoffset ->A
>                5A4
> \calculatepaperoffsets ...lue {\??pp #1\c!offset }
>                                                   \divide 
> \scratchdimen \arr...
> <argument> ...dth }\fi \calculatepaperoffsets {A4}
>                                                   \xdef \papersize {A4}
> \firstofoneargument #1->#1
>
> \next1 #1,->\docommand {#1}
>                            \doprocesscommaitem
> ...
> l.3 \setuplayout
>
> ?
>
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