Re: Imposition and repeating pages

[Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>]

On Fri, 26 Aug 2011, Marcin Borkowski wrote:

>>> 2. I'd like to prepare a cheat sheet of size, say, A6, so I want
>>> *the same page* to be repeated 4 times on an A4 sheet.  Is there a
>>> "canonical" way to do it?  (I mean, other than copying-and-pasting,
>>> or equivalently, defining a macro and repeating it 4 times?)
>>
>> You can write a macro that reads a pdf file and outputs each of its
>> page four times. For example (untested):
>>
>> \getfiguredimensions[file]%
>> \edef\NOfpages{\noffigurepages}%
>> \dorecurse{\NOfpages}
>>    {\dorecurse{4}
>>         {\startTEXpage
>>          \externalfigure[file][page=\recurselevel]%
>>          \stopTEXpage}}
>>
>> and then do the arranging.
>
> Thanks - but this is exactly what I do *not* want to do.  My first idea
> was to do something like
>
> \def\onepageworthofmaterial{<whatever>\page}
> \dorecurse{4}{\onepageworthofmaterial}
>
> which is similar, but simpler.

You will need to tweak the output routine for that. See the definition of 
\dofinaloutput and \dopagebody. But that can be tricky.

Aditya

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