a0 split into a4?

a0 split into a4?

[Xan]

Hi,

Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context 
document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If it's, 
surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)

Xan.
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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Xan]

En/na Xan ha escrit:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context 
> document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If it's, 
> surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
>
> Xan.
>
I found a page [http://nxg.me.uk/docs/posters/] dedicated for printing 
posters in LaTeX. In section "3.1 Printing onto multiple sheets", it 
provides two resources:
- epssplit [http://home.clara.net/nox/software/epssplit/]
- poster [ftp://ftp.es.ele.tue.nl/pub/users/jos/poster/]

It seems that the first it's only EPS dependant. Is there any way to 
pass the ConTeXt pdf output to eps?

And it seems that the second it's only PS dependant. Is there any way to 
pass pdf to ps?

Can you CCme?
Thanks a lot,
Xan.

PS: I found nothing in contextgarden and in the official manual related 
to "poster".
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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Xan]

En/na Xan ha escrit:
> En/na Xan ha escrit:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context 
>> document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If it's, 
>> surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
>>
>> Xan.
>>
> I found a page [http://nxg.me.uk/docs/posters/] dedicated for printing 
> posters in LaTeX. In section "3.1 Printing onto multiple sheets", it 
> provides two resources:
> - epssplit [http://home.clara.net/nox/software/epssplit/]
> - poster [ftp://ftp.es.ele.tue.nl/pub/users/jos/poster/]
>
> It seems that the first it's only EPS dependant. Is there any way to 
> pass the ConTeXt pdf output to eps?
>
> And it seems that the second it's only PS dependant. Is there any way 
> to pass pdf to ps?
>
> Can you CCme?
> Thanks a lot,
> Xan.
>
> PS: I found nothing in contextgarden and in the official manual 
> related to "poster".
>
Ah!, perhaps some guy who want to help wants to know that in CTAN there 
is a section dedicated to posters in LaTeX:

http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#posterpackages

Cheers,
Xan.
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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 19.04.10 20:29, schrieb Xan:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context 
> document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If it's, 
> surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
\starttext
\slicepages[document.pdf][n=4]
\stoptext

Wolfgang

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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Xan]

> Am 19.04.10 20:29, schrieb Xan:
> >/ Hi,
> />/
> />/ Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context 
> />/ document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If it's, 
> />/ surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
> /\starttext
> \slicepages[document.pdf][n=4]
> \stoptext
>
> Wolfgang
Thanks. But is it possible to scale it and put margins at each slicepage?

Xan.

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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Peter Rolf]

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Hi Xan,

Am 20.04.2010 20:30, schrieb Xan:
>> Am 19.04.10 20:29, schrieb Xan:
>> >/ Hi,
>> />/
>> />/ Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write
>> context />/ document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it
>> possible. If it's, />/ surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
>> /\starttext
>> \slicepages[document.pdf][n=4]
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Wolfgang
> Thanks. But is it possible to scale it and put margins at each slicepage?
>
not in a straight line. but you can use \slicepages to clip the image
into the wanted sizes (papersize-offset) and then centre up the
resulting pdf pages in a new document (which adds the offsets). adding
some crop marks in this second step can be helpful too.

\starttext
\useexternalfigure[test][cow.pdf][width=29cm]% [height=20cm]
\slicepages[test][n=4,height=20cm,width=29cm]
\stoptext

i leave the rest to you.

Best wishes, Peter

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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 20.04.10 20:30, schrieb Xan:
>> Am 19.04.10 20:29, schrieb Xan:
>> >/ Hi,
>> />/
>> />/ Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write 
>> context />/ document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it 
>> possible. If it's, />/ surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
>> /\starttext
>> \slicepages[document.pdf][n=4]
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Wolfgang
> Thanks. But is it possible to scale it and put margins at each slicepage?
You can try \setuplayout[scale=0.9,location=middle]

Wolfgang

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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Xan]

En/na Xan ha escrit:
> En/na Xan ha escrit:
>> En/na Xan ha escrit:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write context 
>>> document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it possible. If 
>>> it's, surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
>>>
>>> Xan.
>>>
>> I found a page [http://nxg.me.uk/docs/posters/] dedicated for 
>> printing posters in LaTeX. In section "3.1 Printing onto multiple 
>> sheets", it provides two resources:
>> - epssplit [http://home.clara.net/nox/software/epssplit/]
>> - poster [ftp://ftp.es.ele.tue.nl/pub/users/jos/poster/]
>>
>> It seems that the first it's only EPS dependant. Is there any way to 
>> pass the ConTeXt pdf output to eps?
>>
>> And it seems that the second it's only PS dependant. Is there any way 
>> to pass pdf to ps?
>>
>> Can you CCme?
>> Thanks a lot,
>> Xan.
>>
>> PS: I found nothing in contextgarden and in the official manual 
>> related to "poster".
>>
> Ah!, perhaps some guy who want to help wants to know that in CTAN 
> there is a section dedicated to posters in LaTeX:
>
> http://texcatalogue.sarovar.org/bytopic.html#posterpackages
>
> Cheers,
> Xan.
>
The following methods work:

1) pdf2ps prova.pdf prova.ps
 ./poster -iA0 -mA4 -pA0 prova.eps > prova2.pdf

2) convert prova.pdf prova.ps
 ./poster -iA0 -mA4 -pA0 prova.ps > prova2.pdf

The pain is that we have to move to ps or eps. pdfposter 
[http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/] seems that leave this prerequisite, 
but it does not work for me as better as poster works, because the first 
does not put marks to margins in the split pages (A4 in my case).

Xan.
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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Xan]

En/na Xan ha escrit:
>> Am 19.04.10 20:29, schrieb Xan:
>> >/ Hi,
>> />/
>> />/ Is it possible to "split" a0 paper into a4? I want to write 
>> context />/ document in a0 size but printing into 16 a4. Is it 
>> possible. If it's, />/ surely it's with ConTeXt! ;-)
>> /\starttext
>> \slicepages[document.pdf][n=4]
>> \stoptext
>>
>> Wolfgang
> Thanks. But is it possible to scale it and put margins at each slicepage?
>
> Xan.
>
>
Thanks Wolfgang and Peter...

Xan.
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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 21.04.10 17:39, schrieb Xan:
> The pain is that we have to move to ps or eps. pdfposter 
> [http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/] seems that leave this prerequisite, 
> but it does not work for me as better as poster works, because the 
> first does not put marks to margins in the split pages (A4 in my case).
Make a spec and i can write something, when you look at the source
you can see the code for \slicepages is very simple.

Wolfgang

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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Xan]

> m 21.04.10 17:39, schrieb Xan:
> >/ The pain is that we have to move to ps or eps. pdfposter 
> />/ [http://pdfposter.origo.ethz.ch/] seems that leave this prerequisite, 
> />/ but it does not work for me as better as poster works, because the 
> />/ first does not put marks to margins in the split pages (A4 in my case).
> /Make a spec and i can write something, when you look at the source
> you can see the code for \slicepages is very simple.
>
> Wolfgang
It's very simple ;-):
\slicepages[document.pdf][width,height,margin] %width and height the slice will be. margin of the slice
\slicepages[document.pdf][width,height,topmargin,bottommargin,...,margintotext] %topmargin... are the margin of the page, and margintotext is the margin between the boundary of slice and text
\slicepages[document.pdf][A4,margin]
\slicepages[document.pdf][A4,margin,style] % style=thinlines, discontinued lines, dots, by default none

 

Thanks a lot for the offering.

Cheers,
Xan.

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Re: a0 split into a4?

[Wolfgang Schuster]

Am 25.04.10 19:39, schrieb Xan:
> \slicepages[document.pdf][width,height,topmargin,bottommargin,...,margintotext] 
> %topmargin... are the margin of the page, and margintotext is the 
> margin between the boundary of slice and text
I' still unable what do you mean with the margintotext option,
\slicepages cuts a page in many small pieces and you want borders
and rules and around the small pictures but where is there text?

Wolfgang

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