Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

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Gerben Wierda

13 Jan 2012 13 Jan '12

8:20 a.m.

Hello community, I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can ConTeXr help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted. I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality. So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy ConTeXt trickery I could use to do this? Summary: - One PDF as result - Each page has a different size and orientation - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels Yours, G

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luigi scarso

13 Jan 13 Jan

8:26 a.m.

New subject: Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:20 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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Hello community,

I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can ConTeXr help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted.

I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality.

So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy ConTeXt trickery I could use to do this?

Summary: - One PDF as result - Each page has a different size and orientation - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels

So , if you have file-001.pdf, file-002.pdf, file-003.pdf maybe \starttext \startTEXpage\externalfigure[file-001]\stopTEXpage \startTEXpage\externalfigure[file-002]\stopTEXpage \startTEXpage\externalfigure[file-003]\stopTEXpage \stoptext is what you need. -- luigi

Mojca Miklavec

8:27 a.m.

New subject: Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 16:20, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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Hello community,

I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can ConTeXr help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted.

I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality.

So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy ConTeXt trickery I could use to do this?

Summary: - One PDF as result - Each page has a different size and orientation - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels

Yes, this is easy. There are three options: 1.) \startTEXpage\externalfigure[...]\stopTEXpage 2.) same, but with TEXstream 3.) a shortcut for the above, \startpagefigure. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document Mojca

Gerben Wierda

8:44 a.m.

Answering my own question, quite simple with ConTeXt: \definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a4portrait] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \page\setuppapersize[a3landscape] \externalfigure[bar.pdf] \stoptext G PS. The solution below does not work because it keeps the sizes of the images and does not set page sizes for the pages where the images are embedded. On 13 Jan 2012, at 16:33, Victor Ivrii wrote:

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NO, AR cannot do this.

gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=merged.pdf source1.pdf source2.pdf source3.pdf

works

with TeX one can use attachfile2 package (may be attachfile also works) to create pdf bundle (aka portfolio). ======

However this is a question of combining. I remember that there is a LaTeX package - cannot recall its name - which changes the size on the fly (inside of document)

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 16:20, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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Hello community,

I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can ConTeXr help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted.

I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality.

So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy ConTeXt trickery I could use to do this?

Summary: - One PDF as result - Each page has a different size and orientation - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels

Yes, this is easy. There are three options:

1.) \startTEXpage\externalfigure[...]\stopTEXpage 2.) same, but with TEXstream 3.) a shortcut for the above, \startpagefigure. See http://wiki.contextgarden.net/Including_pages_from_PDF_document

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luigi scarso

8:47 a.m.

New subject: Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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Answering my own question, quite simple with ConTeXt:

\definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a4portrait] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \page\setuppapersize[a3landscape] \externalfigure[bar.pdf] \stoptext

G

PS. The solution below does not work because it keeps the sizes of the images and does not set page sizes for the pages where the images are embedded.

Ah ok, you don't want to inherit the pagesize from the external pdf. -- luigi

Gerben Wierda

10:15 a.m.

It still is weird. It sometimes work (but not completely) and sometimes not. For instance \definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a3landscape] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \stoptext foo.pdf is a 18.43x13.88 inch PDF image The end result is a 16.54x16.54 inch PDF image with the embedded image cropped. ?? G On 13 Jan 2012, at 16:47, luigi scarso wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote: Answering my own question, quite simple with ConTeXt:

\definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a4portrait] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \page\setuppapersize[a3landscape] \externalfigure[bar.pdf] \stoptext

G

PS. The solution below does not work because it keeps the sizes of the images and does not set page sizes for the pages where the images are embedded.

Ah ok, you don't want to inherit the pagesize from the external pdf.

-- luigi

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Gerben Wierda

10:49 a.m.

Weirder still. \definepapersize[large][a3,landscape] \definepapersize[small][a4,portrait] \setuppapersize[large] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \page\setuppapersize[small] \externalfigure[bar.pdf] \stoptext The first page is now 11.69x11.69 inch and the second page is a4, but landscape So, let's make sure I use both layout size and print size in my definitions \definepapersize[large][a3,landscape][a3,landscape] \definepapersize[small][a4,portrait][a4,portrait] \setuppapersize[large] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf][factor=fit] \page\setuppapersize[small] \externalfigure[bar.pdf][factor=fit] \stoptext Now both pages are a4 landscape. Another go: \setuppapersize[a3,landscape][a3,landscape] \starttext \externalfigure[BoudewijndeHaasOpgave2Totaalview.pdf][factor=fit] \page\setuppapersize[a4,portrait][a4,portrait] \externalfigure[FredRademakerOpgave2Totaalview.pdf][factor=fit] \stoptext Both a4 landscape again. Does this stuff work at all? Another go \setuppapersize[A3,landscape][A3,landscape] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf][factor=fit] \page\setuppapersize[A4,portrait][A4,portrait] \externalfigure[bar.pdf][factor=fit] \stoptext Hmm, this works. I originally used lower case a4 and a3, as I saw that in an example somewhere. But somewhere else I saw A3, A4 etc. G On 13 Jan 2012, at 18:15, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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It still is weird. It sometimes work (but not completely) and sometimes not. For instance

\definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a3landscape] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \stoptext

foo.pdf is a 18.43x13.88 inch PDF image The end result is a 16.54x16.54 inch PDF image with the embedded image cropped.

??

G

On 13 Jan 2012, at 16:47, luigi scarso wrote:

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On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 4:44 PM, Gerben Wierda wrote: Answering my own question, quite simple with ConTeXt:

\definepapersize[a3landscape][A3,landscape] \definepapersize[a4portrait][A4,portrait] \setuppapersize[a4portrait] \starttext \externalfigure[foo.pdf] \page\setuppapersize[a3landscape] \externalfigure[bar.pdf] \stoptext

G

PS. The solution below does not work because it keeps the sizes of the images and does not set page sizes for the pages where the images are embedded.

Ah ok, you don't want to inherit the pagesize from the external pdf.

-- luigi

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Aditya Mahajan

3:43 p.m.

New subject: Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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Hello community,

I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can ConTeXr help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted.

I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality.

So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy ConTeXt trickery I could use to do this?

Summary: - One PDF as result - Each page has a different size and orientation - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels

In the past I have used pdftk to merge pdfs and found it to be pretty reliable. Aditya

Gerben Wierda

3:57 p.m.

I did not see the possibility to influence page sizes of the PDF's you merge in the man page. G On 13 Jan 2012, at 23:43, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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Hello community,

I have the following problem. I need to create a single PDF file where each page may have a different size and orientation. Say the first page is A4 portrait, the second is A3 landscape and so on. Can ConTeXr help? Each page contains a PDF image of some random size that is inserted.

I have been looking around for a solution but haven't found one. I also tried Create.app, the drawing program. And I tried a program call PDF Merge and some others. Neither of these work, and most of the merge programs out there maybe merged, but changed the nice vector images into pixel images, completely destroying print quality.

So, I am back where I started. Is there some fancy ConTeXt trickery I could use to do this?

Summary: - One PDF as result - Each page has a different size and orientation - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels

In the past I have used pdftk to merge pdfs and found it to be pretty reliable.

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Aditya Mahajan

4:03 p.m.

New subject: Merging PDF document of various page sizes. Can ConTeXt help?

On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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I did not see the possibility to influence page sizes of the PDF's you merge in the man page.

I thought that you did not want to influence the page size. From what I remember, pdftk does not change page sizes, it simply merges the pdfs. Aditya

Gerben Wierda

4:15 p.m.

I wrote: - One PDF as result - Each page has a different size and orientation - Each page contains a PDF vector image that is not to be converted to pixels I have looked at many tools: All so far do not leave vector images vector images, they convert to pixels and at a pretty low resolution at that. All so far looked at do not ignore page sizes, they set a page size for the entire document. Anyway, ConTeXt is capable, though it is difficult to get it working properly because its arguments cannot stand combinations of fit-to-size and rotation in combination. But with a lot of specific hand work and nudging, I can get there eventually. G On 14 Jan 2012, at 00:03, Aditya Mahajan wrote:

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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012, Gerben Wierda wrote:

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I did not see the possibility to influence page sizes of the PDF's you merge in the man page.

I thought that you did not want to influence the page size. From what I remember, pdftk does not change page sizes, it simply merges the pdfs.

Aditya ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki!

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