Hello Tobias At 16:18 18.11.2003, Tobias wrote:

\setuppapersize[a5,landscape][a4,landscape] \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=-4cm]

After some puzzeling I can come up with the following solution: \setupoutput[pdftex] \setuppapersize[A4,landscape][A4,landscape] \setuplayout [header=0pt, footer=1cm, backspace=6cm, topspace=3cm] \starttext \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=2cm] \stoptext i.e. basically the layout of the lnadscape A4 has to be done first. Here you can reserve some space at the left margin. After \starttext, the pages can be combined. The distance option does tell the distance between the two pages. I hope that this is what you are looking for. Kind regards Willi

At 16:18 18/11/2003, you wrote:

Hi,

I have a A5 document (as PDF file) which should be nx=2,ny=1 placed on a landscape A4 paper. The problem is that I want to have more whitespace on the left side for stapleing/punching which can easiest be done by letting the included pages overlap. I tried distance=-4cm but it didn't work as expected.

Desired result:

+---+-------------+------------+ | | first a5 . | second a5 | | | . | | | | . | | | | . | | +---+-------------+------------+ | ^^^ - included pages overlap | extra wide margin

I tried: \setuppapersize[a5,landscape][a4,landscape] \combinepages[main.pdf][nx=2,ny=1,frame=on,distance=-4cm]

How about ... \setuppapersize [A4,landscape] [A4,landscape] \setuplayout [height=middle,width=middle, header=0pt,footer=0pt, topspace=1cm, cutspace=1cm,backspace=3cm] \newcounter\DirtyTrickCounter \startsetups[verydirtytrick] \doglobal\increment\DirtyTrickCounter \ifodd\DirtyTrickCounter \hbox to \overlaywidth{\hskip1cm\foregroundbox} \fi \stopsetups \defineoverlay [verydirtytrick] [\setups{verydirtytrick}] \starttext \combinepages [mag-0004-000.pdf] [nx=2,ny=1, background=verydirtytrick, frame=on] \stoptext Dirty eh? Hans