2011/7/20 Procházka Lukáš Ing. - Pontex s. r. o. <l...@pontex.cz>: > Hello, > > this question in not straightly related to Context, but Context users may > have solved it and Ctx may be used to solve it. > > I would need to get the following information from .pdf file(s): > > - number of pages, > - common width and height of pages (provided that they are the same; > otherwise the dimension can be e.g. zero). > > The final goal is to use Ctx as a .pdf joining engine - to provide this, I > need to know whether the .pdf to be inserted is portrait or landscape > oriented, what is its size (so if to be scaled or not) etc. > > So Lua inside Ctx may be used to get the required .pdf info, if necessary. > > If an external program was used, it should be non-interactive (command-line > oriented), free and working under Windows. > > Does anyone have any experience with such a task? You can use some macros (see Taco), and for external programs google for mupdf and xpdf
Tthe lua pdf library with mkiv should be also useful, but I've still to play with it. -- luigi ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
