[NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
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

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Gerben Wierda gerben.wie...@rna.nl 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

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Mojca Miklavec
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 16:20, Gerben Wierda gerben.wie...@rna.nl 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

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
Answering my own question, quite simple with ConTeXt: \definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a4portrait] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \page\setuppapersize[a3landscape] \externalfigure[bar.pdf] \stoptext G PS. The solution

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread luigi scarso
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Gerben Wierda gerben.wie...@rna.nl wrote: Answering my own question, quite simple with ConTeXt: \definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a4portrait] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf]

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
It still is weird. It sometimes work (but not completely) and sometimes not. For instance \definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a3landscape] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \stoptext foo.pdf is a 18.43x13.88 inch PDF image The

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
Weirder still. \definepapersize[large][a3,landscape] \definepapersize[small][a4,portrait] \setuppapersize[large] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \page\setuppapersize[small] \externalfigure[bar.pdf] \stoptext The first page is now 11.69x11.69 inch and the second page is a4, but landscape So,

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
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

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
I did not see the possibility to influence page sizes of the PDF's you merge in the man page. G On 13 Jan 2012, at 23:43, Aditya Mahajan wrote: 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

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Aditya Mahajan
On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda wrote: I did not see the possibility to influence page sizes of the PDF's you merge in the man page. I thought that you did not want to influence the page size. From what I remember, pdftk does not change page sizes, it simply merges the pdfs. Aditya

Re: [NTG-context] Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

2012-01-13 Thread Gerben Wierda
I wrote: - 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 I have looked at many tools: All so far do not leave vector images vector images, they convert to pixels and at a pretty low resolution at