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From: Aditya Mahajan <adityam@umich.edu>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: total pages in external PDF
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 17:05:01 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LNX.2.03.1502251703520.18633@hzvpu.rqh> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <54EE095A.7080607@gmx.es>

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On Wed, 25 Feb 2015, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> I need to get the number of pages from an external PDF file that I also
> define with an \env.
>
> I think I could get something like this.:
>
>    \def\Myfilename{\env{filename}}
>    doc = epdf.open(arg[\MyFilename])
>    total_pages_ =  doc:getNumPages()
>    \def\Mypages{total_pages}
>
> But mixing both lua and ConTeXt commands the wrong way won’t work.
>
> Sorry, but this is all Greek to me. Although I see how it could be done,
> I cannot write the code for this.
>
> Which is the right way to get the code above working?

From my old cut-n-paste module (to format two column pdfs into one column 
so that they are easier to read on an eink reader)

\useexternalfigure[cnp:name][\cut!n!paste!parameter\c!name]% Is this really needed?
\getfiguredimensions[cnp:name]%
\edef\cut!n!paste!NOfpages {\noffigurepages}%

Aditya

[1]: 
https://github.com/adityam/cut-n-paste/blob/master/tex/context/third/cut-n-paste/t-cut-n-paste.tex

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2015-02-25 22:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-02-25 17:41 Pablo Rodriguez
2015-02-25 21:45 ` Hans Hagen
2015-02-26 17:54   ` Pablo Rodriguez
2015-02-25 22:05 ` Aditya Mahajan [this message]
2015-02-26 17:55   ` Pablo Rodriguez

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