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Introduction
page-imp.tex defines some handy macros for handling import of existing PDF documents.
To include only a specific page from a PDF document you can write
\externalfigure[file.pdf][page=1,width=...]
or
\startTEXpage \externalfigure[file.pdf][page=1,width=...] \stopTEXpage
which is equal to
\startpagefigure[file.pdf][page=1,...]\stoppagefigure
This one inserts the first 30 pages of the document and adds a blank page after the first and the third page.
\insertpages[file.pdf][1,3][n=30,width=18cm]
If you want to insert a couple of pages use this:
\filterpages[file.pdf][1,3,4:6][width=18cm]
to insert pages 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6 or
\filterpages[file.pdf][even][width=18cm] % even/odd
to insert even/odd pages up to the page 30. (See also Taco's hack in Processing Lists for handling ranges of numbers or this thread in the mailing list.)
Yet another alternative is
\copypages[file.pdf][n=30,scale=950]
to insert the first 30 pages scaled down to 95%.
Printing Slides from a presentation
If you want to make a 2*3 matrix from all the slides in the document you can use the following example:
\setuppapersize [A4][A4] % or [A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \setuplayout [header=0pt,footer=1cm, backspace=1cm,topspace=1cm, width=middle,height=middle] \setupfootertexts [presentation---\currentdate\space---\space\pagenumber] \starttext \combinepages[slides][nx=2,ny=3,frame=on] \stoptext
Slicing the pages
The opposite of combining the pages together is to slice them in pieces.
This will make 3*3 pages out of your document (well, it depends on proportions).
\starttext \slicepages[slice1.pdf][n=3] \stoptext
Adding comments to pages
\setuppagecomment[state=start,location=right] \startpagecomment \input knuth \stoppagecomment
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TODO: prepare a graphics for each example (See: To-Do List) |
Reformatting a Single-Sided pdf for Double-Sided Printing
Context can be used as a pdf postprocessor.
This example takes an original single-sided document and applies differing horizontal offsets to odd and even pages. This simultaneously
- compensates for the fixed offset in the original, and
- introduces a new alternating one as required for double-sided printing
It is useful for printing reference manuals downloaded from the web.
% replace "Manual" with the name of your original pdf \define\MySingleSidedDocument{Manual} % can adjust topspace to move page etc \setuplayout[\MySingleSidedDocument,topspace=1cm,header=0cm,backspace=0cm] % suppress page numbering \setuppagenumbering[location=] \starttext \getfiguredimensions[\MySingleSidedDocument] \dorecurse\noffigurepages {\hbox to \textwidth {\ifodd\recurselevel %adjust number to set odd page horizontal position \hskip-0.1cm\externalfigure[\MySingleSidedDocument][page=\recurselevel]\hss \else %adjust number to set even page horizontal position \hskip-1.8cm\externalfigure[\MySingleSidedDocument][page=\recurselevel]\hss \fi}} \stoptext