Re: issue with imposition

[Willi Egger <w.egger@boede.nl>]

Hi Pablo,

The problem is that the filius-page is higher than the width of an  
A4. So there is no way other than to scale the original pages down to  
a height of 210mm. For this action you can use something like

The following code in a tex-file.

\definepapersize[Mypaper][height=210mm,width=123mm]
\setuppapersize
   [Mypaper][Mypaper]
\setuplayout
   [page]
\starttext
\copypages
   [input.pdf]
   [scale=905,
    offset=0pt]
\stoptext

The resulting pdf-file should then be arranged. However I would   
suggest not to use 2UP.  Arranging the whole file (351 pages) with  
2UP results in a rather thick single booklet of 88 A4-sheets. What  
you can try is to setup arranging as follows (untested). Put this  
code into an environment file e.g. arrange.tex

\definepapersize[Mypaper][height=210mm,width=123mm]
%\definepapersize [offset=15pt]	
\setuppapersize
   [Mypaper][A4,portrait]
\setuplayout
   [backspace=0pt,
  	 topspace=0pt,
  	width=middle,
  	height=middle,
  	%location=middle,
  	header=0pt,
  	footer=0pt]
  	
\setuppagenumbering[location=,alternative=doublesided]
\setuparranging[2*2*4]
\starttext
	\insertpages[input-scaled.pdf][width=0pt]
\stoptext

On the commandline call conTeXt as follows

texmfstart texexec --pdfarrange --environments=arrange -- 
result=output.pdf  input-scaled.pdf

I hope this helps

Willi

On Jan 18, 2009, at 8:05 PM, Pablo Rodríguez wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> I would like to use the imposition capabilities from ConTeXt to be  
> able
> to print a PDF book in a standard laser printer. To save paper, I  
> use the 2UP arranging option thanks to this code from the wiki:
>
> \definepapersize	[filius][width=135.9mm, height=231.8mm]
> \setuppapersize		[filius][A4,landscape]
> \setuparranging		[2UP,doublesided]
> \setuplayout [backspace=0pt,
>     topspace=0pt,
>        width=middle,
>       height=middle,
>     location=middle,
>       header=0pt,
>       footer=0pt,
>       grid=no, marking=off]
> \starttext
> \filterpages[ZittrainTheFutureoftheInternet.pdf][4:351][height=21cm]
> \stoptext
>
> The PDF file can be downloaded from
> http://futureoftheinternet.org/static/ 
> ZittrainTheFutureoftheInternet.pdf.
>
> The issue here is that I get a resulting paper size with the filius  
> height and not with 21cm from A4.
>
> I have tried have the output in a standard A4 paper size, but all  
> that I got is a scaled down PDF. I would like to avoid scaling the  
> document if that were possible.
>
> Is there any way, given the example above, to impose the filius  
> paper size on a real landscape A4 without having to scale down the  
> PDF document?
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
>
> Pablo
>
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