page selection with context magnifies

page selection with context magnifies

[Karl Berry]

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(I believe this is the same bug I reported on December 6, with
additional information.)

I'm using context (from TL 2003) to select pages.  It's apparently
actually changing the content, that is, enlarging it!  Consider page 2
of the attached covers.pdf.  I try to extract it with:

texexec --mode=letter --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf

The result is the attached bad2.pdf.  If you view at, say, 100% ("fit to
page" will eradicate the difference) and compare to the original page 2,
the fonts appear larger and everything is moved to the right a bit, as
if the page was magnified by some small proportion.

The same thing happens with page 4 and with other files I have tried.

I tried removing the --mode=letter, it made no difference.

Any help appreciated.  Although gs can extract pages correctly, it
loses the searchable text, while context preserves it, so I'd rather use
the latter. :).

Thanks,
k


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texexec --mode=letter --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf

 TeXExec 4.0 - ConTeXt / PRAGMA ADE 1997-2003

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          current mode : letter
            outputfile : bad2

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entering extended mode
(./texexec.tex{/usr/local/texlive2003/texmf-var/pdftex/config/pdftex.cfg}

ConTeXt  ver: 2003.9.25  fmt: 2003.12.6  int: english  mes: english

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)
system         : cont-old loaded
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loading        : Context Old Macros
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(/usr/local/texlive2003/texmf/tex/context/base/cont-fil.tex
loading        : Context File Synonyms
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bodyfont       : 12pt rm is loaded
language       : patterns 2:2-en-2 3:2-uk-2 4:2-de-2 5:2-fr-2 6:2-es-2 7:2-it-2
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system         : texexec.top loaded
(./texexec.top
specials       : loading definition file tpd
(/usr/local/texlive2003/texmf/tex/context/base/spec-tpd.tex
specials       : loading definition file fdf
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system (E-TEX) : [line 1907] \ifcsname 
<protect 4> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf loaded
<unprotect 3> <protect 3>)
specials       : fdf,tpd loaded
)
pdftex         : needs map file: original-context-symbol.map
pdftex         : needs map file: pl0-ams-cmr.map
pdftex         : needs map file: original-vogel-symbol.map
systems        : begin file texexec at line 14
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figures        : dimensions of ./covers.pdf loaded from figurefile itself
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systems        : end file texexec at line 17
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Output written on texexec.pdf (1 page, 38393 bytes).
Transcript written on texexec.log.

           return code : 0
              run time : 5 seconds
              renaming : texexec to bad2

        total run time : 6 seconds

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Re: page selection with context magnifies

[Patrick Gundlach]

Hello Karl,

> I'm using context (from TL 2003) to select pages.  It's apparently
> actually changing the content, that is, enlarging it!  Consider page 2
> of the attached covers.pdf.  I try to extract it with:
>
> texexec --mode=letter --pdfselect --selection=2 --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf

try:

texexec --pdfselect --selection=2 --paper=letter --result=bad2.pdf covers.pdf

Patrick