* a0 split into a4? @ 2010-04-19 18:29 Xan 2010-04-20 14:58 ` Xan 2010-04-20 15:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Xan @ 2010-04-19 18:29 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-19 18:29 a0 split into a4? Xan @ 2010-04-20 14:58 ` Xan 2010-04-20 15:00 ` Xan 2010-04-20 15:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Xan @ 2010-04-20 14:58 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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". ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-20 14:58 ` Xan @ 2010-04-20 15:00 ` Xan 2010-04-20 18:30 ` Xan 2010-04-21 15:39 ` Xan 0 siblings, 2 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Xan @ 2010-04-20 15:00 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-20 15:00 ` Xan @ 2010-04-20 18:30 ` Xan 2010-04-21 9:57 ` Peter Rolf ` (2 more replies) 2010-04-21 15:39 ` Xan 1 sibling, 3 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Xan @ 2010-04-20 18:30 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users > 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. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-20 18:30 ` Xan @ 2010-04-21 9:57 ` Peter Rolf 2010-04-21 12:48 ` Wolfgang Schuster 2010-04-21 15:40 ` Xan 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Peter Rolf @ 2010-04-21 9:57 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users [-- Attachment #1: Type: text/plain, Size: 875 bytes --] 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 [-- Attachment #2: mince.png --] [-- Type: image/png, Size: 10865 bytes --] [-- Attachment #3: Type: text/plain, Size: 486 bytes --] ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-20 18:30 ` Xan 2010-04-21 9:57 ` Peter Rolf @ 2010-04-21 12:48 ` Wolfgang Schuster 2010-04-21 15:40 ` Xan 2 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2010-04-21 12:48 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-20 18:30 ` Xan 2010-04-21 9:57 ` Peter Rolf 2010-04-21 12:48 ` Wolfgang Schuster @ 2010-04-21 15:40 ` Xan 2010-04-25 17:39 ` Xan 2 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Xan @ 2010-04-21 15:40 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-21 15:40 ` Xan @ 2010-04-25 17:39 ` Xan 2010-04-26 7:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster 0 siblings, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Xan @ 2010-04-25 17:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users > 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. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-25 17:39 ` Xan @ 2010-04-26 7:19 ` Wolfgang Schuster 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2010-04-26 7:19 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-20 15:00 ` Xan 2010-04-20 18:30 ` Xan @ 2010-04-21 15:39 ` Xan 2010-04-21 17:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster 1 sibling, 1 reply; 12+ messages in thread From: Xan @ 2010-04-21 15:39 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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. ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-21 15:39 ` Xan @ 2010-04-21 17:11 ` Wolfgang Schuster 0 siblings, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2010-04-21 17:11 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
* Re: a0 split into a4? 2010-04-19 18:29 a0 split into a4? Xan 2010-04-20 14:58 ` Xan @ 2010-04-20 15:05 ` Wolfgang Schuster 1 sibling, 0 replies; 12+ messages in thread From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2010-04-20 15:05 UTC (permalink / raw) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 12+ messages in thread
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