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From: Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:57:13 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7A0EF932-5DCB-46A1-824E-D4CEC127167D@rna.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.2.02.1201131743090.16118@nqv-gnoyrg>

I did not see the possibility to influence page sizes of the PDF's you merge in the man page.

G

On 13 Jan 2012, at 23:43, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda wrote:
> 
>> Hello community,
>> 
>> I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can ConTeXr help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted.
>> 
>> I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality.
>> 
>> So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy ConTeXt trickery I could use to do this?
>> 
>> Summary:
>> - One PDF as result
>> - Each page has a different size and orientation
>> - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels
> 
> In the past I have used pdftk to merge pdfs and found it to be pretty reliable.
> 
> Aditya
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  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-13 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-13 15:20 Gerben Wierda
2012-01-13 15:26 ` luigi scarso
2012-01-13 15:27 ` Mojca Miklavec
2012-01-13 15:44   ` Gerben Wierda
2012-01-13 15:47     ` luigi scarso
2012-01-13 17:15       ` Gerben Wierda
2012-01-13 17:49         ` Gerben Wierda
2012-01-13 22:43 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-01-13 22:57   ` Gerben Wierda [this message]
2012-01-13 23:03     ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-01-13 23:15       ` Gerben Wierda

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