Re: 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages

["Mojca Miklavec" <mojca.miklavec.lists@gmail.com>]

On 8/29/06, Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> > texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --2up yourfile.pdf
>
> I tried a few experiments with no luck.  Not sure if it's a context or
> texexec problem, or my confusion.  I made the multi-page p5.pdf from

try --paperformat instead of --paper.

texexec --pdfcombine --combination=2*1
--paperformat=A4,landscape*A4,lanscape --nobanner filename.pdf

seems to do almost what you want (although it's way to complicated if
you ask me), but I still don't understand how
    \definepapersize[offset=#{paperoffset}]
works.

Mojca


> \setuppapersize[A4][A4]
> \starttext
> \dorecurse{50}{
> \input tufte
> }
> \stoptext
>
> Then I ran 'texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 p5.pdf' (the --2up
> doesn't change the error below) and got this error:
>
> ! Missing number, treated as zero.
> <to be read again>
>                    a
> \@@ppoffset ->a
>                5a4
> \calculatepaperoffsets ...lue {\??pp #1\c!offset }
>                                                   \divide \scratchdimen \arr...
> <argument> ...!height }\calculatepaperoffsets {A4}
>                                                   \xdef \papersize {A4}
> \firstofoneargument #1->#1
>
> \next1 #1,->\docommando {#1}
>                             \doprocesscommaitem
> ...
> l.3 \setuplayout
>
>
> texexec is doing the arranging by making the following 'texexec.tex'
> file and then, I think, running texexec on it:
>
> \definepapersize
>   [offset=a5a4]
> \setuplayout
>   [backspace=0cm,
>     topspace=0cm,
>        width=middle,
>       height=middle,
>     location=middle,
>       header=0pt,
>       footer=0pt]
> \setuppagenumbering
>   [alternative=doublesided]
> \starttext
> \insertpages
>   [p5.pdf]
>   [width=0cm]
> \stoptext
>
> The 'offset=a5a4' is upsetting Context; according to texshow-web on
> the garden, the offset should be a dimension.  Also, I couldn't find
> (using grep) the string 'a5a4' in the context sources.