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(83.79.25.58) by thesan.fiee.net with ESMTPSA (AES128-SHA encrypted, authenticated); 20 Sep 2011 08:53:16 +0200 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=178.77.74.245; country=DE; region=07; city=Host; latitude=51.6500; longitude=6.1833; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=51.6500,6.1833&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0bFySRgH2 - 664618abc888 - 20110920 X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:71225 Archived-At: Am 2011-09-20 um 04:08 schrieb Yue Wang: > Hi, powerful context users: > > I'm wondering why there is no crop setting for \externalfigure or > \insertpages. > I have a lot of scanned books in PDF format, most of them are double > sided. > I want to read them on kindle but the huge margins take too much space > and as a result the texts are too small. > I want to use commands like \insertpages to crop all the pages with > different bounding box settings for odd/even pages. > there's a "scale" option for \copypages but it's somewhat naive to use > in such practical cases... At least for \externalfigure you can use \clip; since you can use it for "everything", it's a single command, not an option. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Graphical_text_manipulation#.5Cclip Greetlings from Lake Constance! Hraban --- http://www.fiee.net/texnique/ http://wiki.contextgarden.net https://www.cacert.org (I'm an assurer) ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________