Re: scale A4 pdf with surrounding box

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 09:04 PM 7/22/2002 +0200, Ron van Ostayen wrote:

>Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>>At 04:35 PM 7/22/2002 +0200, you wrote:
>>
>>>Could you please help me to copy a a4-pdf file to a 80% scaled version 
>>>on a4, but with each page surrounded by a box.
>>>
>>>texexec --pdfcopy --scale 0.8 --markings file.pdf
>>>
>>>produces almost what I want, but instead of cutmarks I would like a box 
>>>surrounding the scaled page.
>>>I assume there is something I can change in the produced "texexex.tex" 
>>>file to obtain the desired result?
>>>
>>>Thanks for any help,
>>
>>you can try to add something:
>>\setupbackgrounds[text][frame=on]
>
>
>Thanks Hans,
>
>After some experimenting I got this to work.
>However, I have to use a two-step approach.
>
>
>1) Copy the original pdf file to a pdf file with a frame around the paper.
>         1a) texexec --pdfcopy file.pdf --result _temp_.pdf
>         1b) edit the resulting texexec.tex and add 
> \setupbackgrounds[text][frame=on]
>         1c) texexec texexec.tex --result _temp_.pdf
>
>2) Then scale the temporary pdf file
>         1c) texexec --pdfcopy _temp_.pdf --scale 0.8 --result file_out.pdf
>
>This works ok, but there must be a one-step approach I could use?

-  copy the texexec.tex file to t-myfile.tex

-  replace the filename in there by \jobfilename

-  then run texexec as follows: texexec --use=myfile filename.tex

simple example:

======== u-myfile.tex ==========

\starttext

filename: \jobfilename

% uncomment this line as example : \input \jobfilename

\stoptext

================================

now run : texexec --use=myfile tufte.tex

and see what happens

Hans
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