From: "luigi scarso" <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>
To: "mailing list for ConTeXt users" <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Wierd problem.
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 21:46:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <fe8d59da0706231246n6dbd7d26gd631f49c17ca68f4@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706231430.07530.john@wexfordpress.com>
On 6/23/07, John R. Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> On another list a listmate proposes to print a book in two copies side
> by side. The page size is 5.5 x 8.5 in. He wants to print two copies
> on his laser printer. He wants two impressions of page one side by
> side on letter paper, with two copies of page two on the reverse side
> etc. for 200 pages. Then he will guillotine the stack making two
> copies of the book.
>
> But wait, it gets worse. He is not resetting the book but has a pdf
> file as his source. I and others suggested the usual bit of using
> PSUtils to set four pages per sheet and folding them etc. but he
> doesn't want to get into folding. He has a guillotine and a binder.
> He doesn't have a folder.
>
> So, given a pdf file of a 5.5 x 8.5 book as a starting point, is there
> a sensible way to massage the pdf or its PS equvalent in a way to
> give him what he wants? He is on an Ubuntu system. He asked his
> question on the Scribus list.
If I understand well,
why not something like
%%
%% set here papersize, pagenumbers, margins and so on
%%
\starttext
\dorecurse{200}{%
\hbox{%
\externalfigure[book.pdf][page=\recurselevel]%
\externalfigure[book.pdf][page=\recurselevel]
}\page}
\stoptext
--
luigi
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-23 19:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-23 18:30 John R. Culleton
2007-06-23 19:46 ` luigi scarso [this message]
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2007-08-14 13:41 ` wierd problem Vyatcheslav Yatskovsky
2007-08-14 15:07 ` Taco Hoekwater
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