splitting a pdf into multiple volumes
Hi all, I'm trying to split a large document for printing to multiple volumes/books. The first volume should contain a table of contents (but no index/list of figures), the second volume should have consecutive pagenumbers, and the last volume should contain an index and the list of figures of all books. Is this possible with context? TIA, - Ralf
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to split a large document for printing to multiple volumes/books. The first volume should contain a table of contents (but no index/list of figures), the second volume should have consecutive pagenumbers, and the last volume should contain an index and the list of figures of all books. Is this possible with context?
My approach would be to build the 'big one', then use something like % this is split-toc.tex \starttext \insertpages[complete.pdf][1,3] \stoptext to lift bits and pieces into separate files. Is something like that feasible? Greetings, Taco
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to split a large document for printing to multiple volumes/books. The first volume should contain a table of contents (but no index/list of figures), the second volume should have consecutive pagenumbers, and the last volume should contain an index and the list of figures of all books. Is this possible with context?
My approach would be to build the 'big one', then use something like
% this is split-toc.tex \starttext \insertpages[complete.pdf][1,3] \stoptext
to lift bits and pieces into separate files. Is something like that feasible?
there is also texexec --pdfselect --selection=1:10 yourfile.pdf --result=anotherfile or so ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------
Hans Hagen wrote:
Taco Hoekwater wrote:
Ralf Schmitt wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to split a large document for printing to multiple volumes/books. The first volume should contain a table of contents (but no index/list of figures), the second volume should have consecutive pagenumbers, and the last volume should contain an index and the list of figures of all books. Is this possible with context?
My approach would be to build the 'big one', then use something like
% this is split-toc.tex \starttext \insertpages[complete.pdf][1,3] \stoptext
to lift bits and pieces into separate files. Is something like that feasible?
there is also
texexec --pdfselect --selection=1:10 yourfile.pdf --result=anotherfile
That would work. The problem I have is that I don't know where to split the pdf file (but I know where to split the context file). The input file looks like \input art1 \input art2 ... \input art_n \page[YES] % split book here \input art_n+1 ... I just don't know how to get the pagenumber in the pdf file after the \page[YES] command. If there was a way to have the actual pagenumber printed to some log file (or stdout), I already would be happy. Sorry if I haven't been clear in my previous post. BTW - if you don't mind some commercial advertising - we're using context to generate books from wikipedia articles in our new service pediapress (http://pediapress.com). We currently don't have a 'credits' page, but Hans certainly belongs there. Thanks for your great work and support on the mailing list. - Ralf
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Ralf Schmitt wrote:
texexec --pdfselect --selection=1:10 yourfile.pdf --result=anotherfile
That would work. The problem I have is that I don't know where to split the pdf file (but I know where to split the context file).
If you know about make, you could write a nice Makefile, that takes as input a temporary file generated by ConTeXt. Example for generating such a file: \newwrite\myTmpFile \openout\myTmpFile \jobname-pages.tmp \starttext \dorecurse{6}{\chapter{bla}} \page\write\myTmpFile{chapter7=\currentpage} \dorecurse{6}{\chapter{bla}} \page\write\myTmpFile{chapter13=\currentpage} \dorecurse{6}{\chapter{bla}} \write\myTmpFile{end=\currentpage} \stoptext Cheers, Peter -- http://pmrb.free.fr/contact/
Peter Münster wrote:
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006, Ralf Schmitt wrote:
texexec --pdfselect --selection=1:10 yourfile.pdf --result=anotherfile That would work. The problem I have is that I don't know where to split the pdf file (but I know where to split the context file).
If you know about make, you could write a nice Makefile, that takes as input a temporary file generated by ConTeXt. Example for generating such a file:
\newwrite\myTmpFile \openout\myTmpFile \jobname-pages.tmp \starttext \dorecurse{6}{\chapter{bla}} \page\write\myTmpFile{chapter7=\currentpage} \dorecurse{6}{\chapter{bla}} \page\write\myTmpFile{chapter13=\currentpage} \dorecurse{6}{\chapter{bla}} \write\myTmpFile{end=\currentpage} \stoptext
Fantastic, that's exactly what I need. Many thanks, - Ralf
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