On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 21:21:33 Peter Schaffter wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 28, 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> > Would it be better to leave the re-ordering to external utilities, e.g.
> > the pdftk package
> >
> > http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
> >
> > on the basis of do one sm
On Thu, Jul 28, 2011, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Would it be better to leave the re-ordering to external utilities, e.g.
> the pdftk package
>
> http://www.pdflabs.com/tools/pdftk-the-pdf-toolkit/
>
> on the basis of do one small thing and do it well?
This is essentially what I concluded when w
Deri James wrote:
> Another good programmer's rule says that the best place to do something is
> "as
> soon as you can". Which places it in the domain of the document creator
> (gropdf). It's not really a radical new feature, more exposing an api to add
> pages in a non-linear fashion.
>
Hel
On Thursday 28 Jul 2011 18:02:32 Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi Deri,
>
> > In a pdf every page is an object and the page order is given in an
> > array called "kids" which is an attribute of the "pages" object. So to
> > reorder the pages in a pdf is simply a case of reordering this array
> > before
Hi Deri,
> In a pdf every page is an object and the page order is given in an
> array called "kids" which is an attribute of the "pages" object. So to
> reorder the pages in a pdf is simply a case of reordering this array
> before it is written to the file. Currently I just push each new page
> on
pdfroff is a very clever and useful utility in groff and I'd appreciate advice
on how best to integrate it into gropdf. Currently gropdf includes its own
pdfmark macros which are intended as a drop in replacement for pdfmark.tmac,
in fact most of the macros are based on Keith Marshall's work.
P
On Tuesday 26 Jul 2011 18:17:17 Werner LEMBERG wrote:
> Folks,
>
>
> I've finally found some time to add Deri's gropdf output device to
> groff, now in the CVS repository. Please test! There are still some
> minor issues (mainly related to packaging), but besides that it seems
> to work well.
>
