[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

Re: [NTG-context] merging pdf

2003-08-14 Thread Hans Hagen
At 14:15 08/08/2003 +0200, scarso luigi wrote: Good news, it seem to work after updating to 1.11 ( This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a (Web2C 7.5.2)) I get 797,077 test.pdf 1,078,539 test1.pdf and your test was 805,366 test.pdf 1,053,739 test1.pdf (Does it depend from pdftex version ?)

[NTG-context] merging pdf (repost)

2003-08-14 Thread scarso luigi
Hello, I use this code to merge file1.pdf, file2.pdf, file3.pdf in file4.pdf % format=english \definepapersize[A3large][width=320mm,height=450mm,offset=0pt] \setuppapersize[A3,landscape][A3large,landscape] \setuplayout [backspace=0pt,marking=on,

Re: [NTG-context] merging pdf

2003-08-14 Thread scarso luigi
Good news, it seem to work after updating to 1.11 ( This is pdfTeXk, Version 3.141592-1.11a (Web2C 7.5.2)) I get 797,077 test.pdf 1,078,539 test1.pdf and your test was 805,366 test.pdf 1,053,739 test1.pdf (Does it depend from pdftex version ?) Previous merging is also good: I have now

Re: [NTG-context] merging pdf

2003-08-14 Thread scarso luigi
The results are: 799537 ago 7 17:55 file1.pdf 1515097 ago 7 17:56 merge.pdf here i get: 805,366 test.pdf 1,053,739 test1.pdf so .. what version of pdftex are you running This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) luigi

Re: [NTG-context] merging pdf

2003-08-10 Thread scarso luigi
Thanks Hans for the answer. I made another try with file1.tex: \setuppapersize[A3,landscape][A3,landscape] \starttext \dorecurse{1500}{\input tufte \par \input knuth \par} \stoptext and merge.tex: \definepapersize[A3large][width=320mm,height=450mm,offset=0pt]

Re: [NTG-context] merging pdf

2003-08-09 Thread Hans Hagen
At 10:48 08/08/2003 +0200, you wrote: This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159-14h-released-20010417 (Web2C 7.3.3.1) hm, then update to 1.0 or higher Hans - Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | [EMAIL