Re: Re: inserting other pdf's

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 12:23 01/10/2003 +0300, you wrote:
>On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Steffen Wolfrum wrote:
>
> > > % output=pdftex
> > > \starttext
> > > \externalfigure[somefile.pdf]
> > > \stoptext
> >
> >
> > When I tried it it looks to me as these pages were placed like figures -
> > sure, externalfigure o)
>
>Unfortunately, they are. Been there, done that, fought two hours with this
>yesterday and got in the best case adequate results by cropping the pdf
>page in Acrobat first and then inserting as externalfigure...
>
>I can do this with Adobe Acrobat (as we really have a licence for the full
>thing) and another (more affordable) option for Windows users would be
>pdfedit995 (<http://www.pdfedit995.com/>), but I really would like to
>insert the pages in ConTeXt to make sure that I don't forget the insertion
>process.
>
>Brief experiments with texexec didn't seem to work and even the help says
>"--pdfcombine  combine pages to one page", which is not what I want to do
>(besides, as I'm compiling my file out of Emacs with a keyboard command,
>I'd rather not play with texexec at all).
>
>
>The command in Acrobat is Document | Insert Pages - I've tried to tell
>myself that there must be an easy way to duplicate this somewhere in the
>ConTeXt file, but may be there isn't? If not, this is HIGH on my wishlist.
>I, too, have full page AutoCad originated pdf files to insert...

\slicepages
   [somefile.pdf]
   [n=0,                        % triggers full page clipping
    voffset=1in,
    height=23.55cm,
    width=22cm,
    offset=\dimexpr(-1in- 2pt)]
   [offset=\dimexpr(-1in+19pt)]

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