From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/73845 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Aditya Mahajan Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help? Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 17:43:51 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: References: <5D57E44F-9089-46FA-81D2-2CDFCB80675B@rna.nl> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1326494658 11202 80.91.229.12 (13 Jan 2012 22:44:18 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 22:44:18 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Fri Jan 13 23:44:14 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Rlpr3-0000te-NW for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:44:13 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2118DCB1DF; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:44:13 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oPc+vkrO-KcQ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:44:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9946ECB1D7; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:44:09 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5001CB1D7 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:44:07 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id fBWmaFCH98+w for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:43:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from filter2-til.mf.surf.net (filter2-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.218]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD4CCCB1B4 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:43:56 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu (smtp.mail.umich.edu [141.211.14.81]) by filter2-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-5+lenny1) with ESMTP id q0DMhsJ2021155 for ; Fri, 13 Jan 2012 23:43:55 +0100 Original-Received: FROM [10.0.2.15] (wpa044095.Wireless.McGill.CA [142.157.44.95]) By hackers.mr.itd.umich.edu ID 4F10B3A8.A3C8F.5557 ; Authuser adityam; 13 Jan 2012 17:43:52 EST In-Reply-To: <5D57E44F-9089-46FA-81D2-2CDFCB80675B@rna.nl> User-Agent: Alpine 2.02 (LNX 1266 2009-07-14) X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=141.211.14.81; country=US; region=MI; city=Ann Arbor; postalcode=48109; latitude=42.2923; longitude=-83.7145; metrocode=505; areacode=734; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=42.2923,-83.7145&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0bGlaHSFz - 52b15b83065d - 20120113 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.218 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 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 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:73845 Archived-At: On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda 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 In the past I have used pdftk to merge pdfs and found it to be pretty reliable. 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