[NTG-context] 2DOWN imposition gives blank pages

[Willi Egger]

Hi Snajoy,

May be you could approach that issue with preparing first a document on 
A4 and for paper saving arrange the pages from the pdf with texexec:

texmfstart texexec --pdfarrange --paper=a5a4 --2up yourfile.pdf

Willi

Sanjoy Mahajan wrote:
> Willi Egger wrote:
>   
>> In your code you try to typeset two A5 portrait beneeth each other
>> on a A4 landscape, which is impossible.
>> ...
>> By the way if you want to typeset A5 on a A4 landscape without
>> intending to make a booklet, then you can use setuparranging[2SIDE]
>>     
>
> Thanks for the explanations.  Now I understand what's going on, and
> the wiki page makes more sense too.  I'll add to the wiki shortly.
>
> A related problem is how to demagnify.  Then you could have (1) a
> high-quality, final mode that generates A4 pages, and (2) a draft,
> papersaving mode that demagnifies them to A5 and combines them in
> pairs (a la 2SIDE) into A4.  I see how to use modes to do everything
> except the demagnifying (Context seems, perhaps wisely, to ignore
> \magnification).
>
> -Sanjoy
>
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