At 16:18 18/11/2003, you wrote:
Hi,

I have a A5 document (as PDF file) which should be nx=2,ny=1 placed on a
landscape A4 paper.
The problem is that I want to have more whitespace on the left side for
stapleing/punching which can easiest be done by letting the included
pages overlap. I tried distance=-4cm but it didn't work as expected.

Desired result:

+---+-------------+------------+
|   |  first a5 . | second a5  |
|   |           . |            |
|   |           . |            |
|   |           . |            |
+---+-------------+------------+
 |              ^^^ - included pages overlap
 | extra wide margin

I tried:
  \setuppapersize[a5,landscape][a4,landscape]
  \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=-4cm]

How about ...


\setuppapersize
  [A4,landscape]
  [A4,landscape]

\setuplayout
  [height=middle,width=middle,
   header=0pt,footer=0pt,
   topspace=1cm,
   cutspace=1cm,backspace=3cm]

\newcounter\DirtyTrickCounter

\startsetups[verydirtytrick]

\doglobal\increment\DirtyTrickCounter

  \ifodd\DirtyTrickCounter
     \hbox to \overlaywidth{\hskip1cm\foregroundbox}
  \fi

\stopsetups

\defineoverlay
  [verydirtytrick]
  [\setups{verydirtytrick}]

\starttext

\combinepages
  [mag-0004-000.pdf]
  [nx=2,ny=1,
   background=verydirtytrick,
   frame=on]

\stoptext

Dirty eh?

Hans

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