[NTG-context] Clipping multiple PDFs

[Pablo Rodriguez]

On 8/22/22 17:46, Jethro Djan via ntg-context wrote:
> Thanks for the solution Pablo. It works well.

Glad to read it worked for you, Jethro.

> 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:

I think this might be what you intend:

  \setuplayout[page]
  \starttext
  \doloopoverlist{ass1,ass2,ass3,ass4,ass5,ass6,ass7,ass8}
    {\def\Doc{\recursestring.pdf}
     \getfiguredimensions[\Doc]
     \dorecurse{\noffigurepages}
     {\externalfigure[\Doc]
       [page=\recurselevel, width=20cm, scale=950]}}
  \stoptext

> I didn’t know how to get an array (or indexed table or whatever you
> call it) in ConTeXt/Tex.

\doloopoverlist & \recursestring are your friends here.

> My problem is now with context(context.noffigurepages). Am I calling
> it wrong? All I want to do is call \noffigurepages from the lua side.
> Is there something I am missing?

The approach is totally different: "getnofpages"
(http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/luametatex.pdf#search=getnofpages).

BTW, your code crashed my session, CPU goes to 100% and RAM usage too. I
wonder how your sample could be compiled fine by your system.

I hope it helps,

Pablo