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List:       lilypond-user
Subject:    Re: [Fwd: Re: insert blanc first page with page-turn-breaking]
From:       Jonathan Kulp <jonlancekulp () gmail ! com>
Date:       2008-09-26 16:11:58
Message-ID: 48DD09CE.7060904 () gmail ! com
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Whoa!!  That is an awesome tool!!!  I just tried the "burst" function to 
break up a pdf into individual pages and it's great!  Many thanks for 
the heads-up about this tool, Alexander.  I'd never heard of it before.

Jon

Alexander Kobel wrote:
> Uh, wanted to give this to the list, too.
> 
> Besides, you might want to change the first page number:
> http://lilypond.org/doc/v2.11/Documentation/user/lilypond/Page-formatting#Other-layout-variables
> 
> (Not sure whether this is done automatically; I never had to use this
> feature so far...)
> 
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> Subject:
> Re: insert blanc first page with page-turn-breaking
> From:
> Alexander Kobel <news@a-kobel.de>
> Date:
> Fri, 26 Sep 2008 17:29:09 +0200
> To:
> a.m.m.schreurs@chem.uu.nl
> 
> To:
> a.m.m.schreurs@chem.uu.nl
> 
> 
> Toine Schreurs wrote:
>> The page-turn-breaking does a marvellous job. If necessary, the output
>> starts at page 2. 
>> Is it possible to insert a blanc first page in that case?
>> I want to print the results with a duplex printer, and without
>> the first blanc page, all page turns turn out to be wrong.
>>
>> Toine Schreurs
> 
> As far as I know there is no option offered by LilyPond to do so, but
> you might want to look at pdftk: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
> You need a document with a blank page in the size of your sheets
> (OpenOffice is your friend), then run
> 	pdftk blank.pdf <music.pdf> cat output <music-with-blank.pdf>
> 
> Besides, you can also extract parts of PDFs, for example to manually
> duplex and want to split your document in odd and even pages, or edit
> the meta tags of the file. It's just a great tool.
> 
> 
> HTH
> Alexander
> 
> 
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Jonathan Kulp
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