-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: vm via ntg-context Gesendet: Freitag, 20. September 2024 10:23 An: ntg-context@ntg.nl Cc: vm Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: How to tell a single *.tex file to produce separate PDFs?

On 20/09/2024 04:57, Joel via ntg-context wrote:

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Anyway, my boss is upset she has to use a table of contents to navigate to the page she wants, and so wants me to split the file into 180 separate files, which somehow is going to be easier to look at. Honestly, she probably still won't ever actually look at it, but that's her requirement.

what is the difference between scrolling through your single page files folder and scrolling through a single pdf?

How about <ctrl-f> too search in the pdf?

with mutools you can take a pdf aprt into individual pages.

$ mutool --help usage: mutool <command> [options] clean -- rewrite pdf file convert -- convert document create -- create pdf document draw -- convert document trace -- trace device calls extract -- extract font and image resources info -- show information about pdf resources merge -- merge pages from multiple pdf sources into a new pdf pages -- show information about pdf pages poster -- split large page into many tiles sign -- manipulate PDF digital signatures run -- run javascript show -- show internal pdf objects

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I was going to suggest pdftk which is similar to mutools. You can get boundaries from a the log file and then split the file using these tools. (Search the mailing list: I think that's also something ConTeXt might be able to do natively, but I'm not sure.) Then, you might also consider using a product-component based solution. You'll then be able to process each file indivdually while still having a main file around. The page numbers in the individual file will be incorrect, i.e. always start at 1, but for having a quick look that still might be nice. (Hans or Wolfgang probably know if there is a way to get correct page numbers when using components...) Best, Denis the

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On Fri, 20 Sep 2024 10:33:55 +0200 Denis Maier via ntg-context wrote:

I was going to suggest pdftk which is similar to mutools.

There is also qpdf. However, running a shell script to run context many times is my favorite solution. This question brings up the topic: would it be useful to be able to do the same within context, either using lua or TeX programming? Alan

-----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: Wolfgang Schuster Gesendet: Freitag, 20. September 2024 12:26 An: mailing list for ConTeXt users ; Joel via ntg-context Betreff: [NTG-context] Re: How to tell a single *.tex file to produce separate PDFs?

You can use the pdf script file but it's slower than mutool or pdftk.

mtxrun --script pdf --split file.pdf

Where will this split the pdf? At certain headers?

Hi Bruce, I had an analogous problem a while ago, but with 7 chapter files, which I treated manually… Your solution is a very nice one, thank you for sharing ! For the archives, if one wishes to have the correct chapter number in each separate PDF file, one could change the content of « test.tex » file as follows: \starttext \setupheadnumber[chapter][\cldcontext{\env{ChapNo}-1}] \input chapter-\env{ChapNo}.tex \stoptext Best regards: Otared

On 20 Sep 2024, at 19:04, Bruce Horrocks wrote:

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On 20 Sep 2024, at 03:57, Joel via ntg-context wrote:

I have a document that's quite long. It uses a recurse function, a bit like this:

\starttext

\dostepwiserecurse{1}{180}{1}{%

\input chapter\recurselevel

}

\stoptext

That produces 180 chapters of content.

Anyway, my boss is upset she has to use a table of contents to navigate to the page she wants, and so wants me to split the file into 180 separate files, which somehow is going to be easier to look at. Honestly, she probably still won't ever actually look at it, but that's her requirement.

Since you’ve already got the chapter content split into separate \input files ...

At the Unix level, use the following script to run Context 180 times specifying a different output file each time:

#! /bin/bash for i in {1..180} do context \ --arguments="ChapNo=$i" test.tex \ --result="chapter_$i.pdf” done

And at the Context level, test.tex is simply:

\starttext \input chapter\env{ChapNo} \stoptext

Regards, — Bruce Horrocks Hampshire, UK

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