Re: [NTG-context] A problem with arranging pages

Dnia 2012-06-05, wto o godzinie 22:43 +0200, Marco pisze:

On 2012-06-05 Marcin Borkowski wrote:

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The leaflet is typeset in a landscape orientation on an A6 sheet, and it is going to be printed 8 times on an A3 sheet.

The same leaflet? Then you don't need \setuparranging

\setuppapersize [A6,landscape] [A3]

\setuppagenumbering [location=] \setupbackgrounds [page] [background=color, backgroundcolor=gray] \setupbodyfont [sans, 58pt] \setuplayout [nx=2, ny=4, marking=on]

\starttext \dorecurse{4} {\null\vfill\centerline\recurselevel\vfill\null\page} \stoptext

Thanks a lot, it works like a charm!

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2. I'd like to get crop marks, in this case short (5mm) lines showing where to cut the sheet, located near the borders, but *within* the printable area.

Since eight A6 pages exactly fit on one A3 page the crop marks can only be *inside* the printable area. That means with marking=on you'll see three marks in the middle of the page. When you also want them to show up at the page borders, you have to fire up MetaPost.

I was afraid of that... Any ideas how to achieve it? (I know a bit of MetaPost, but I don't have any clue how to achieve this.)

Marco

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