From: amerke <artur.merke@udo.edu>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: different page sizes on one sheet
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 19:08:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <530F7F33.7060008@udo.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1402271020400.4103@hzvpu.rqh>
hi,
i ended up using a very flexible (open source, LUA scriptable by option)
imposition tool:
podofoimpose (http://podofo.sourceforge.net/tools.html)
it's just an additional step to get my output done (as my ConTeXt files
are generated by a ruby script) ...
cheers
artur
On 02/27/2014 04:43 PM, Aditya Mahajan wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Feb 2014, amerke wrote:
>
>> hi rudolf (& list),
>>
>> thank you for your 'quick hack', it's ok for my current solution.
>> page number, margins and background and stuff like grid alignment are
>> still a problem ...
>>
>> but, i suppose, there must be :-) a tiny piece of code in ConTeXt,
>> where the rotation of the whole page can be achieved (but still
>> treating the page as a landscape page for the above setup arranging
>> layer)
>>
>> maybe someone knows how to do it and can share his knowledge ... ?
>
> Do you need interaction (hyperref in latex-speak) to work? If not, one
> possibility is the following.
>
> You anyways have to do manual page-breaking because your sheets are of
> different size. Create a PDF with two A6 pages followed by an A5 page
> (and repeat).
>
> Use a separate CLD (Context lua document) for arranging. Once you know
> the number of pages of the pdf (you can get this in lua as well as in
> tex), you can simple use something like (pseudo code)
>
> for i = 1, no_of_page, 3 do
> context.setlayer( {"page"}, {x = "0", y = "0" }, {
> "\\externalfigure[file][page=i]" })
> context.setlayer( {"page"}, {x = "0", y = "0.5\\textheight" }, {
> "\\externalfigure[file][page=i+1]" })
> context.setlayer( {"page"}, {x = "0.5\\textwidth", y = "0" }, {
> "\\externalfigure[file][page=i+2]" })
> end
>
> Aditya
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-27 18:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-24 7:14 Artur Merke
2014-02-24 19:55 ` amerke
2014-02-24 21:42 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-02-25 14:32 ` amerke
2014-02-25 22:28 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2014-02-26 14:37 ` amerke
2014-02-26 14:58 ` Rudolf Bahr
2014-02-26 16:46 ` Rudolf Bahr
2014-02-27 8:10 ` amerke
2014-02-27 15:43 ` Aditya Mahajan
2014-02-27 18:08 ` amerke [this message]
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2014-02-21 14:31 amerke
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