Bill McClain wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:21:42 -0600 Idris S Hamid wrote:

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Aside: Maybe there is way to make a single cover in ConTeXt instead of combining three pdfs in Acrobat (which is a pain). I'd be happy to learn:-)

I can't help with distiller, but I create my covers in ConTeXt by making three pdf documents and combining them like so:

Actually, I was thinking about creating all 3 covers from the beginning as a .tex file, but using ConTeXt as a post processor instead of Acrobat is a great idea and I will definitely try it. Since my Arabic will already be compiled into the individual covers I can use pdfetex for the final full cover. Thnx!!! One thing I'd like to be able to control is making the front and back covers overlap the spine slightly. That is, I make the spine slightly wider than needed. Then I need to be able to make the two covers overlap more or less of the spine as demanded by the final printing. It would be neat to develop a generic means of doing this so that I only have to adjust a single parameter to fine-tune things. One hard part about compiling the covers as one file from the beginning is that the spine contains vertical material (like the title) and horizontal material (like a logo). What I do is compile the spine as one horizontal-text file, the logo as one horizontal-text file, convert them to pdf, rotate the spine to make it vertical, then copy and past the horizontal logo onto the vertical spine. Thnx again. If anybody can help with distiller and the rest of the things I mentioned, please let me know! Best Idris

At 10:34 10/04/2003 -0500, Bill McClain wrote:

On Thu, 10 Apr 2003 09:21:42 -0600 Idris S Hamid wrote:

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Aside: Maybe there is way to make a single cover in ConTeXt instead of combining three pdfs in Acrobat (which is a pain). I'd be happy to learn:-)

I can't help with distiller, but I create my covers in ConTeXt by making three pdf documents and combining them like so:

\useexternalfigure[back][cover-back][type=pdf] \useexternalfigure[spine][cover-spine][type=pdf] \useexternalfigure[front][cover-front][type=pdf]

\definepapersize[Cover][height=7.75in, width=10.625in] \setuppapersize[Cover][Cover] \setuplayout[topspace=0in, header=0in, footer=0in] \setuplayout[backspace=0in]

\starttext \hbox to 10.625in{% {\externalfigure[back]}% {\externalfigure[spine]}% {\externalfigure[front]}% } \stoptext

The dimensions depend on the book, of course.

fyi: \setuplayout[page] will give you the full page, as will: \startTEXpage \stopTEXpage saves some keying Hans ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE | pragma@wxs.nl Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: +31 (0)38 477 53 69 | fax: +31 (0)38 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- information: http://www.pragma-ade.com/roadmap.pdf documentation: http://www.pragma-ade.com/showcase.pdf -------------------------------------------------------------------------