From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/47598 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Devereux Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Using texexec to prepare single-sided PDF for double-sided printing Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:00:26 +0000 Message-ID: <87zlge8qk5.fsf@cordelia.devereux.me.uk> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1235334526 17954 80.91.229.12 (22 Feb 2009 20:28:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2009 20:28:46 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sun Feb 22 21:30:02 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LbKxd-0004bO-TI for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:30:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A06911FCF6; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:28:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 06060-02-25; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:27:39 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3C6AA1FD1D; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:01:31 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC6981FC20 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:19:04 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11408-05-39 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:18:17 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (filter1-ams.mf.surf.net [192.87.102.69]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE4E1FB8F for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:00:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from cordelia.devereux.me.uk (cordelia.devereux.me.uk [217.169.15.178]) by filter1-ams.mf.surf.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/Debian-3) with ESMTP id n1MF0d53016971 for ; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 16:00:42 +0100 Original-Received: from [217.169.15.178] (helo=cordelia.devereux.me.uk ident=jd) by cordelia.devereux.me.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1LbFop-0001jN-SX for ntg-context@ntg.nl; Sun, 22 Feb 2009 15:00:35 +0000 User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=217.169.15.178; country=GB; region=L6; city=Much Wenlock; latitude=52.6000; longitude=-2.5500; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.6000,-2.5500&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 183527512 - d7e1fac802cf X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 192.87.102.69 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 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 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:47598 Archived-At: Hi, 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. I don't want to put 2 pages on one output sheet - although the ability to fine-tune the scaling might be useful. I have experimented with plenty of combinations of texexec --pdfarrange ...but I am not getting anywhere. Any suggestions appreciated. I am on debian and there are plenty of other pdf tools, but none of these seem quite right either. It would seem a common enough requirement but nothing quite works! Thanks, -- John Devereux ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________