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From: John Devereux <john@devereux.me.uk>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Using texexec to prepare single-sided PDF for double-sided printing
Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 17:04:20 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ocwt84q3.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7596A83B-B6A0-446A-AE79-33E125FFC904@gmail.com> (Wolfgang Schuster's message of "Mon\, 23 Feb 2009 10\:54\:36 +0100")

Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> writes:

> Am 22.02.2009 um 16:00 schrieb John Devereux:
>
>> I would like to use texexec to post-process a large pdf file, so as to
>> prepare it for double sided printing. The existing file has a large
>> left hand "margin" on each page, so as to allow binding.
>>
>> I would like to change this so that odd (right) pages have a large
>> left margin, and even (left) pages a large right margin.
>
> \setuppagenumbering[alternative=doublesided]
> \setuplayout[horoffset=1cm]
> \setuplayout[page]
> \starttext
> \copypages[document]
> \stoptext

Thanks, that's great!

Is there an easy way to compensate for the original offset? The
original pdf has a large left margin and a small right one.

> you can add this to the wiki.

Will do.

-- 

John Devereux
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-23 17:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-22 15:00 John Devereux
2009-02-23  9:54 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-23 17:04   ` John Devereux [this message]
2009-02-23 17:51     ` Wolfgang Schuster
2009-02-23 19:47       ` John Devereux

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