From: luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
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 16:26:38 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAG5iGsBd5kY2aPuRYaZx9wFEdEN8Pvh3QvB9W59wS6awnhfXtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5D57E44F-9089-46FA-81D2-2CDFCB80675B@rna.nl>
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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Gerben Wierda <gerben.wierda@rna.nl> 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
>
So , if you have file-001.pdf, file-002.pdf, file-003.pdf maybe
\starttext
\startTEXpage\externalfigure[file-001]\stopTEXpage
\startTEXpage\externalfigure[file-002]\stopTEXpage
\startTEXpage\externalfigure[file-003]\stopTEXpage
\stoptext
is what you need.
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luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-13 15:26 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 [this message]
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
2012-01-13 23:03 ` Aditya Mahajan
2012-01-13 23:15 ` Gerben Wierda
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