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From: Hans Hagen <j.hagen@xs4all.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>,
	Jack Steyn <steynjack@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Trouble setting PDF boxes
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 21:44:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <7c676ca4-40d0-de03-13ce-e4b6b00c3f2e@xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAA=DcJG3uNbbZGPg0rmR_smJeB1T+4DL10Z=Wi13YS1Bi3NhMg@mail.gmail.com>

On 4/30/2020 5:51 PM, Jack Steyn wrote:
> Hello, I'm happy to report that I got this working after much trawling 
> through the source and documentation. The code below produces a pdf with 
> the MediaBox, CropBox, BleedBox and TrimBox all in the places I 
> specified in my original message. I hope it helps illustrate how to set 
> these PDF boxes using Lua. I would much appreciate any feedback on how 
> the Lua code can be cleaned up or made more flexible (the bleed is 
> hard-coded in because I didn't know how to obtain the user-specified 
> bleedoffset, for example), or made better in any other way.
can you try this

\setuplayout
   [cropoffset=30pt,
    bleedoffset=20pt,
    trimoffset=10pt]

\setupinteractionscreen
   [width=max,height=max]

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30 19:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-25 12:37 Jack Steyn
2020-04-25 16:42 ` Jack Steyn
2020-04-30 15:51   ` Jack Steyn
2020-04-30 19:44     ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2020-05-01  1:55       ` Jack Steyn
2020-04-26  9:46 ` bug in PDF boxes? (was: Re: Trouble setting PDF boxes)) Pablo Rodriguez
2020-04-26 14:43   ` Jack Steyn

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