Thanks for the solution Pablo. It works well. I wanted to add more pdfs (which also has many pages) and found it was easier for me to reason in the lua side of things. This is what I have at the moment: \starttext \startluacode local function doc(fil) return fil..[[.pdf]] end local function disppdf(fname) n = 1 repeat context.externalfigure({fname},{ page = n, width = "200mm", scale = "950" }) n = n + 1 until n == context(context.noffigurepages) end local pdffiles = {"ass1", "ass2", "ass3", "ass4", "ass5", "ass6", "ass7", "ass8"} for index=1,#pdffiles do local f = doc(pdffiles[index]) context.getfiguredimensions({f}) disppdf(pdffiles[index]) end \stopluacode \stoptext I didn’t know how to get an array (or indexed table or whatever you call it) in ConTeXt/Tex. My problem is now with context(context.noffigurepages). It doesn’t produce an integer so n is being compared to nil. Am I calling it wrong? All I want to do is call \noffigurepages from the lua side. Is there something I am missing? Jethro

On 21 Aug 2022, at 4:41 PM, Pablo Rodriguez via ntg-context wrote:

On 8/18/22 02:13, jethro Reuel via ntg-context wrote:

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Hello,

I am trying to put multiple PDF’s that were typeset differently into one document without modifying the individual files themselves. [...] The problem is the original page numbers show and I’d prefer that it did not. So I thought maybe I could clip all the page numbers from every page (since they are all in the same position across all the pages) but I don’t know how to do this with the \clip command. Any ideas? I already tried using \input but it gives some weird output in some places. It doesn’t have to use this method as long as it does what I need it to do.

Hi Jethro,

it works using \clip with \externalfigure inside a loop (\dorecurse).

With \getfiguredimensions you get the number of pages of each PDF document (\noffigurepages).

The following source both generates the source PDF document and the imposed result with clipped pages (just to see a sample of the commands mentioned above):

\startbuffer[newbuff] \setuppapersize[A3] \setupbodyfont[sans, 1200pt] \starttext \dorecurse{8} {\startmakeup[page][pagestate=start, align=center, style=\bf] \recurselevel \stopmakeup} \stoptext \stopbuffer \startmode[*first] \savebuffer[newbuff][source_page.tex, prefix=no] \executesystemcommand{context --purgeall source_page.tex} \stopmode \setuplayout[page] \setuppapersize[A6][A4] \setuppaper[nx=2, ny=2] \setuparranging [XY] \starttext \startnotmode[*first] \def\Doc{source_page.pdf} \getfiguredimensions[\Doc] \dorecurse{\noffigurepages} {\clip[hoffset=96mm, voffset=136mm, width=105mm, height=148mm] {\externalfigure[\Doc][page=\recurselevel]}} \stopnotmode \stoptext

Just in case it might help,

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