MPpage and single PDFs

MPpage and single PDFs

[Oliver Buerschaper]

Dear wizards,

I was wondering whether there's a way to have ConTeXt spill out each

\startMPpage
…
\stopMPpage

it encounters as a separate PDF file … by default all MPpages seem to  
be collected into a single PDF file. Which is nice as long as this  
file is postprocessed by another ConTeXt document … however, I need to  
extract the individual figures from within LaTeX. So if anyone happens  
to know how to instruct LaTeX's graphicx package to do just that this  
would be a lovely alternative :-)

Oliver
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Re: MPpage and single PDFs

[Martin Schröder]

2008/8/4 Oliver Buerschaper <oliver.buerschaper@mpq.mpg.de>:
> extract the individual figures from within LaTeX. So if anyone happens
> to know how to instruct LaTeX's graphicx package to do just that this
> would be a lovely alternative :-)

All known TeX engines can only produce one output file per run.

Best
   Martin
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Re: MPpage and single PDFs

[Hans Hagen]

Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
> Dear wizards,
> 
> I was wondering whether there's a way to have ConTeXt spill out each
> 
> \startMPpage
> …
> \stopMPpage
> 
> it encounters as a separate PDF file … by default all MPpages seem to  
> be collected into a single PDF file. Which is nice as long as this  
> file is postprocessed by another ConTeXt document … however, I need to  
> extract the individual figures from within LaTeX. So if anyone happens  
> to know how to instruct LaTeX's graphicx package to do just that this  
> would be a lovely alternative :-)

just keep them in one file and access the images by page, so .. include 
page 4 from file bla.pdf

Hans

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Re: MPpage and single PDFs

[Aditya Mahajan]

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On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:

> Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
>> Dear wizards,
>>
>> I was wondering whether there's a way to have ConTeXt spill out each
>>
>> \startMPpage
>> …
>> \stopMPpage
>>
>> it encounters as a separate PDF file … by default all MPpages seem to
>> be collected into a single PDF file. Which is nice as long as this
>> file is postprocessed by another ConTeXt document … however, I need to
>> extract the individual figures from within LaTeX. So if anyone happens
>> to know how to instruct LaTeX's graphicx package to do just that this
>> would be a lovely alternative :-)
>
> just keep them in one file and access the images by page, so .. include
> page 4 from file bla.pdf

IIRC, graphicx package in LaTeX can do that, so it should not be a 
problem. Otherwise, you can use pdftk and "burst" the pdf into separate 
pages.

Aditya

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Re: MPpage and single PDFs

[Oliver Buerschaper]

>> extract the individual figures from within LaTeX. So if anyone  
>> happens
>> to know how to instruct LaTeX's graphicx package to do just that this
>> would be a lovely alternative :-)
>
> All known TeX engines can only produce one output file per run.

Ah, you've probably got me wrong … what I'd like to know is whether  
there's a LaTeX equivalent of

\externalfigure[all_my_figures.pdf][page=1]

so perhaps something along the lines of

\includegraphics[page=1]{all_my_figures.pdf}?

Oliver


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Re: MPpage and single PDFs

[Oliver Buerschaper]

> just keep them in one file and access the images by page, so ..  
> include
> page 4 from file bla.pdf

This is what I'd do with ConTeXt … wicked trick, by the way ;-) But  
how to do that with LaTeX? I know it's somewhat off topic …

Oliver
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Re: MPpage and single PDFs

[Oliver Buerschaper]

> This is what I'd do with ConTeXt … wicked trick, by the way ;-) But
> how to do that with LaTeX? I know it's somewhat off topic …

 From what I heard on the MacTeX list this can be done using LaTeX's  
pdfpages package …

Just in case someone might find this helpful.

Oliver
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Re: MPpage and single PDFs

[Wolfgang Schuster]

On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 8:48 PM, Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu> wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Aug 2008, Hans Hagen wrote:
>
>> Oliver Buerschaper wrote:
>>>
>>> Dear wizards,
>>>
>>> I was wondering whether there's a way to have ConTeXt spill out each
>>>
>>> \startMPpage
>>> …
>>> \stopMPpage
>>>
>>> it encounters as a separate PDF file … by default all MPpages seem to
>>> be collected into a single PDF file. Which is nice as long as this
>>> file is postprocessed by another ConTeXt document … however, I need to
>>> extract the individual figures from within LaTeX. So if anyone happens
>>> to know how to instruct LaTeX's graphicx package to do just that this
>>> would be a lovely alternative :-)
>>
>> just keep them in one file and access the images by page, so .. include
>> page 4 from file bla.pdf
>
> IIRC, graphicx package in LaTeX can do that, so it should not be a problem.
> Otherwise, you can use pdftk and "burst" the pdf into separate pages.

You could use ConTeXt

  texexec --split filename

Wolfgang
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