At 23:45 21/04/2004, you wrote:
On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Hans Hagen wrote:
not that any people use magnification, it was needed in the bitmap times to get a bigger output but still in good quality; with todays outlines and fit to paper options of printer drivers ... no need for such thing
It's one robust way to make big posters with pdftex. Just do the poster layout on a smaller design page (e. g. 250mm * 350mm, maybe multi columns, grid) where the 10/11/12pt fonts (even math) work right natively without any font size tuning. Then at the document begin: 1. Calculate all page dimensions non-true, 2. set \mag, and 3. reset page dimensions to true dimens --- and you get a big poster, with fonts correctly scaled. One-file/one-step process, no PDF embedding step for ximage magnification required. Also get a small handout version fitting to A4, if \mag < 1000. Even with clickable links, which is not yet possible with pdfximage (pdfpages package)!
hm, i hadn't thought of that so, given the previous mails, and looking at the application, and the fact that pdftex ships out code in th eprocess, i think that we can stick to: - the magn is frozen as soon as the first code is written to the pdf file - the magn is applied to everything Hans