Hi, I’ve regenerated my password and can now commit again. It happened that I used podofoimpose these days and found some unexpected tricks I want to share with you.
*Add a stamp to a document* Shame on me, don’t even have a real stamp at my "office". So I tried something and it worked! Say you have that official one page A4 doc on which you want to add a nice stamp named official.pdf. You have your stamp in the file stamp.pdf. You first have to create two files : == pdf.list == official.pdf stamp.pdf ========= ==stamponator.plan== 597.6 842.4 1 1 0 0 0 2 1 0 350 100 =============== Now you can run: podofoimpose pdf.list stamped-official.pdf stamponator.plan 0 *Make a tiled poster* I composed a 640x380 mm document in Scribus, I was thinking I could use the built-in Kprinter poster option to print it on my A4 laser printer. But no poster available on my OpenSuse box, so I thought I could give podofo a try. Here is the plan file, it’s still not exact but since i get my poster printed I don’t bother too much :) ==poster.plan====== 597.6 842.4 1 1 0 16.56 172.4 1 2 0 -547.92 172.4 1 3 0 -1112.4 172.4 1 4 0 -1676.88 172.4 1 5 0 16.56 -497.6 1 6 0 -547.92 -497.6 1 7 0 -1112.4 -497.6 1 8 0 -1676.88 -497.6 =============== I ran a regular: podofoimpose large.pdf poster.pdf poster.plan 0 *Multiple business cards on a sheet* Classical need ==carte.plan======== 520.722 765.22 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 265.548 0 1 1 0 0 255.174 1 1 0 265.548 255.174 1 1 0 0 510.348 1 1 0 265.548 510.348 2 2 0 0 0 2 2 0 265.548 0 2 2 0 0 255.174 2 2 0 265.548 255.174 2 2 0 0 510.348 2 2 0 265.548 510.348 ================ podofoimpose carte.pdf carte_imposed.pdf carte.plan 38.439 Note the sheet margin adjustment which lets room for the cut marks (if there is a relevant trim box[1] in the file), I can’t decide if it’s a bug or a feature! If the plan was generated automatically by a GUI app or something similar it would be a feature but when you have to compute it "by hand", it’s a real pain. Although it gives good results. If it does not work for you, don’t hesitate to ask questions (hm, and write patches!). [1] i don’t know if it’s documented somewhere but : "Trim" & "Crop" have the same length as for "Media" & "Bleed" so you can sometimes just use sed to do something useful without invalidate the XRef table. Think that a PDF/X-3 generated by Scribus 1.3.3.x version has a mandatory TrimBox. -- Pierre Marchand ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone _______________________________________________ Podofo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/podofo-users
