Re: Texexec

Re: Texexec

[Hans Hagen]

At 23:01 01/07/2003 -0500, you wrote:

>I'm trying to combine multiple PDF files. When I run
>
>"texexec --pdfarrange *.pdf"
>
>it works fine except for one thing: the input is in letter format and the
>output appears to be in A4.  A little bit of the right side gets cut off.
>
>I've tried --mode=letter and a bunch of other options but nothing seems to
>force texexec to output in letter.
>
>Can you help me?

texexec --help pdfarrange

TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003

          --pdfarrange   arrange pdf pages
            --addempty   add empty page after
          --background
                           =string   : background graphic
           --backspace   inner margin of the page
            --markings   add cutmarks
            --noduplex   single sided
               --paper   paper format
         --paperoffset   room left at paper border
           --textwidth   width of the original (one sided) text
            --topspace   top/bottom margin of the page


--paper=letter*letter --print=2up

or if you run a recent context --paper=A*B being letter on doubleletter - 
which is actually non existent -

(there is an experimental gui for page imposition; will update/post that 
one soon)

Hans
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Re: Texexec

[Marshall Ward]

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Thanks so much for the quick response, but it still didn't work.  We had
to make do with A4, not big deal.  However, maybe I should submit this as
a bug since I really think I've tried every option shown in the help.  
Texexec is the ONLY free Linux software I could find that could merge 
encrypted PDFs without any loss in quality!

Here's what I did:



##### pdfinfo #####

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo testcert10.pdf
Title:        Seagate Crystal Reports - 23C5F
Author:       mward00@THISTOWN
Creator:      PScript5.dll Version 5.2
Producer:     Jaws PDF Creator v3.00.1343
CreationDate: Thu Jun 26 17:09:51 2003
Tagged:       no
Pages:        1
Encrypted:    yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no)
Page size:    612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:    101763 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo testcert11.pdf
Title:        Seagate Crystal Reports - 23C5F
Author:       mward00@THISTOWN
Creator:      PScript5.dll Version 5.2
Producer:     Jaws PDF Creator v3.00.1343
CreationDate: Thu Jun 26 17:09:51 2003
Tagged:       no
Pages:        1
Encrypted:    yes (print:yes copy:no change:no addNotes:no)
Page size:    612 x 792 pts (letter)
File size:    101763 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3

##### ACTUAL COMMAND #####

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ texexec --pdfarrange --paper=letter*letter --print=2up 
--result=out.pdf testcert10.pdf testcert11.pdf

### Output attached as out.log ###


##### RESILT FILE INFO #####

[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo out.pdf
Creator:      TeX
Producer:     pdfTeX-0.14h
CreationDate: Fri Jul  4 18:28:00 2003
Tagged:       no
Pages:        2
Encrypted:    no
Page size:    595.276 x 841.89 pts
File size:    202996 bytes
Optimized:    no
PDF version:  1.3



At this point I'm not really asking for help, but trying to maybe help 
point out a bug.  It's texexec version 2.6, but if there is any other 
info you need please let me know.  Oh --- and I know you're probably not 
the main developer/maintainer, but there wasn't one listed.  So I'm going 
through you. :-)  

Thanks so much for your time and help!
Marshall Ward







On Wed, 2 Jul 2003, Hans Hagen wrote:

> At 23:01 01/07/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> 
> >I'm trying to combine multiple PDF files. When I run
> >
> >"texexec --pdfarrange *.pdf"
> >
> >it works fine except for one thing: the input is in letter format and the
> >output appears to be in A4.  A little bit of the right side gets cut off.
> >
> >I've tried --mode=letter and a bunch of other options but nothing seems to
> >force texexec to output in letter.
> >
> >Can you help me?
> 
> texexec --help pdfarrange
> 
> TeXExec 3.2 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003
> 
>           --pdfarrange   arrange pdf pages
>             --addempty   add empty page after
>           --background
>                            =string   : background graphic
>            --backspace   inner margin of the page
>             --markings   add cutmarks
>             --noduplex   single sided
>                --paper   paper format
>          --paperoffset   room left at paper border
>            --textwidth   width of the original (one sided) text
>             --topspace   top/bottom margin of the page
> 
> 
> --paper=letter*letter --print=2up
> 
> or if you run a recent context --paper=A*B being letter on doubleletter - 
> which is actually non existent -
> 
> (there is an experimental gui for page imposition; will update/post that 
> one soon)
> 
> Hans
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>                                    Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl
>                        Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands
>   tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
>                         information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf
>                      documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf
> -------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 

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This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417-2.1 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) (format=cont-en 2003.6.25)  4 JUL 2003 18:28
entering extended mode
**&cont-en texexec.tex
(./texexec.tex{/usr/share/texmf/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}

ConTeXt  ver: 2002.1.28  fmt: 2003.6.25  int: english  mes: english

language       : language en is active
system         : cont-new loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-new.tex
systems        : beware: some patches loaded from cont-new.tex!
)
system         : cont-old loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-old.tex
loading        : Context Old Macros
)
system         : cont-fil loaded
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
)
bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
language       : patterns 2-en-2 2-uk-2 2-de-2 2-fr-2 2-nl-2 loaded
specials       : tex,postscript,rokicki loaded
\openout2 = `texexec.tui'.

system         : texexec.top loaded
(./texexec.top
specials       : loading definition file tpd
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
specials       : loading definition file fdf
(/usr/share/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-fdf.tex <unprotect 3> <unprotect 4>
<protect 4> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf loaded
<unprotect 3> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
)
\openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'.

\openout0 = `mprun.mp'.

\openout0 = `mpgraph.mp'.

\openout0 = `mprun.mp'.

 (pdf image page 1) <./testcert10.pdf>
figures        : dimensions of ./testcert10.pdf loaded from figurefile itself
system         : 1.1 arranged at 1
(pdf image page 1) <./testcert11.pdf>
figures        : dimensions of ./testcert11.pdf loaded from figurefile itself
system         : 2.2 arranged at 2
system         : 3.3 arranged at 3
system         : 4.4 arranged at 4
[5.5.0.1] [5.5.0.2]
systems        : end file texexec at line 18
 ) 
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 623 strings out of 26422
 9280 string characters out of 311630
 365379 words of memory out of 1100001
 27209 multiletter control sequences out of 10000+25000
 9049 words of font info for 28 fonts, out of 400000 for 1000
 22 hyphenation exceptions out of 10000
 39i,13n,45p,186b,377s stack positions out of 3000i,500n,3000p,50000b,5000s

Output written on texexec.pdf (2 pages, 202996 bytes).

Re: Re: Texexec

[Hans Hagen]

At 18:39 04/07/2003 -0500, Marshall Ward wrote:

>[mdw162@twain tmp]$ texexec --pdfarrange --paper=letter*letter --print=2up
>--result=out.pdf testcert10.pdf testcert11.pdf
>
>### Output attached as out.log ###
>
>
>##### RESILT FILE INFO #####
>
>[mdw162@twain tmp]$ pdfinfo out.pdf
>Creator:      TeX
>Producer:     pdfTeX-0.14h

better update to pdftex 1.0 or higher !

At this point I'm not really asking for help, but trying to maybe help
>point out a bug.  It's texexec version 2.6, but if there is any other
>info you need please let me know.  Oh --- and I know you're probably not
>the main developer/maintainer, but there wasn't one listed.  So I'm going
>through you. :-)

can you download the latest beta?

- make sure that you run the right texexec i.e. 3.2
- you need to regenerate the format

but, forst, try the texexec i sent you (which is 3.2) (check symlinks)

hans
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Re:TeXexec

[Dan Seracu]

Hello again!

I solved the problem by downloading the ActiveState Perl. Now it is
working.
Thanks to you all!

Dan Seracu