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Hi there,

Not being an expert in press related topics, could you give me more details on what you mean by mirror page? Do you want to have the same text on the forth and the back of the page? Do you want to have the headers/footers placed so that the page number is always on the outside/inside of ...

Hi
I have a fairly complex LaTeX document, intended for printing at a press. The press would like all pages in the output document to be mirror images of the original pages for the highest quality of output.

Is there some way to mirror all pages of a LaTeX file (or its output PDF) ?

thanks


s.b.

Dear all
I want to import several charts from OpenOffice Calc. I created the charts, and since Calc has no direct graphics export, pasted the graph into OpenOffice Draw, and then exported the selected graph into PNG for eventual import into LaTeX. This works, but the quality of the chart is poor ...

Dear all
I have a series of boxes created through \colorbox\parbox and \shadowbox\parbox combinations. Is there any way to automatically number them (similar to tables and figures) and have a List of Boxes generated automatically?

thanks in advance

sb

The first problem is solved by defining a new length, setting it to \fboxsep and use it later on to reset \fboxsep .
\newlength{\mylength}
\setlength{\mylength}{\fboxsep} % Saving fboxsep into mylength
\setlength{\fboxsep}{20pt}
...
\setlength{\fboxsep}{\mylength} % restoring fboxsep


Best ...

Dear all
How do I define a variable and then reuse it later in the document? Something like:

\def\MyVariable{\value{fboxsep}}
\setlength{\fboxsep}{20pt}
%% Do some stuff

% Now restore the value
\setlength{\fboxsep}{\MyVariable}

Also, how can I define a variable in one place and reuse it as a ...

Dear gmedina, localghost
After reading the documentation for xargs, I'm inclined to believe gmedina is right...while xargs package enhances the flexibility of parameters, it doesn't seem to enhance their number (I may be completely wrong).

das

Dear all
The following code doesn't compile as LaTeX seems to have a built-in limit of 9 arguments. Is there some way to side-step this limitation?


\newcommand{\oneTick}[28]{\ticket{%
\put(7,38){\makebox[0mm]{\bfseries\Large #1}}
\put(#2,#3){#4}
\put(#5,#6){#7}
\put(#8,#9){#10}
\put(#11,#12 ...

Sorry, trivial error--I used braces instead of parens...it works with parens.

s.b.

Dear all
I'd like to use arguments passed in into \newcommand as arguments to \put. The following, however, doesn't compile. What would be the right way to do this?
\newcommand{\myticket}[4]{
\ticket{%
\put(7,38){\makebox[0mm]{\bfseries\Large #1}}
\put{#2,#3}{#4}
}
}
Then I try to call it with ...