Re: Page Numbering Hell

[luigi scarso <luigi.scarso@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Bryant Eastham
<beastham@pewla.us.pewg.panasonic.com> wrote:
> Thomas, all:
>
> It appears that not all of the messages have been delivered in a timely manner - I just received quite a few. I suppose that is why you reference the reply I got (or didn't until just now). FYI, it appears to me that there are major issues with the ntg.nl domain name server - it sometimes seems to go non-responsive. I can fix my local machine for web access, but I cannot change my mailer.
>
> As I have already written, sorry for the caustic approach. I obviously have offended you, and apologize.
>
> Most of your points are well taken. Yes, I had looked at all the examples that I could find, I had checked the many references, and could not find documentation on most of the routines that current postings seem to indicate should be used. With the further pointers I have received I will try again, and post my results.
>
> As for my "real" comment, snide question begs snide response. I accept that. However, keep in mind that "real" to me >doesn't mean "cool", or "full of features", or "better", but rather means that it will work, day in and day out, in a >commercial environment.
by now 5 years on production with ConTeXt . I think Pragma is on
production from 20 years.

>
> Judging by other responses, the jury is out on "real" (at least of mkiv).
Two projects running with mkiv.

> I will continue to evaluate. And, my 35 documents, hundreds of pages was not meant to be multiplied! I have under >1,000 pages total.
$>pdfinfo pdftex.pdf
:
Pages:          812
:
1000 pages is not a big number even for a single doc.
The problems today are opentype, colours, multilingual, multi channel
ouput, automatic workflow.
There are not so many tools that are programmable as ConTeXt (anyway,
you can always buy expensive solutions).

>
> Thanks to others for their responses. I will try them out tomorrow, and will be sure to collect all my hundreds of attempts

Tests -- that's what we need.
-- 
luigi
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