Bottom margin vs. descenders question

[Paulo Ney de Souza]

Doug,

And hod do you perform the tests? ON PDF or on images made from the PDF's?

Paulo Ney

On Fri, Jun 26, 2020 at 6:42 AM Philip Taylor <
P.Taylor at hellenic-institute.uk> wrote:

> Doug McKenna wrote:
>
> Thanks for all the interesting responses to my question; they were helpful.
>
> The motivation for it is I have been building a custom program that helps vet formatting violations for paper submissions for a conference and its eventual proceedings in book form.
>
>
> As you are only "vetting", Doug, and not being called on to "massage", the
> following will not be strictly relevant but may nonetheless be of
> interest.  For a 6-page, tri-fold, A4 menu, my printer recommend that pp.~1
> & 4 be 1 mm narrower than the other pages, to allow the fold to tuck in
> neatly.  Whilst I *could* have elected to tackle this in the master
> document I preferred not to, so what I did instead was to write a second
> TeX program to read the output of the first as data, massage the resulting
> information, and then ship out the massaged content.  See below.
>
> Philip Taylor
> --------
>
> % !TeX Program=XeTeX
>
>
> \special {background cmyk 0.83 0.82 0.21 0.60}
>
>
> \newdimen \rulewidth
>
> \newdimen \tuckloss
>
>
> \tuckloss = 1 mm
>
> \rulewidth = 0,5 \tuckloss
>
>
> \def \rule
>
> {%
>
>         \special {color push rgb 1.0 1.0 0.0}%
>
>         \vrule width \rulewidth
>
>         \special {color pop}%
>
>         \relax
>
> }
>
>
> \hsize = 296 mm
>
> \vsize = 210 mm
>
> \pdfpageheight = \vsize
>
> \pdfpagewidth = \hsize
>
> \newdimen \dekoffset
>
> \dekoffset = 1 true in
>
> \hoffset = \dimexpr \hoffset - \dekoffset \relax
>
> \voffset = \dimexpr \voffset - \dekoffset \relax
>
> \setbox 1 = \vbox {\XeTeXpdffile "Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).pdf"
> page 1
>         width \dimexpr \hsize / 3 - \tuckloss - 0,666 \rulewidth \relax
> height \vsize }\relax
>
> \setbox 2 = \vbox {\XeTeXpdffile "Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).pdf"
> page 2
>         width \dimexpr \hsize / 3 - 0,666 \rulewidth \relax height \vsize
> }\relax
>
> \setbox 3 = \vbox {\XeTeXpdffile "Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).pdf"
> page 3
>         width \dimexpr \hsize / 3 - 0,666 \rulewidth \relax height \vsize
> }\relax
>
> \setbox 4 = \vbox {\XeTeXpdffile "Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).pdf"
> page 4
>         width \dimexpr \hsize / 3 - \tuckloss \relax height \vsize }\relax
>
> \setbox 5 = \vbox {\XeTeXpdffile "Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).pdf"
> page 5
>         width \dimexpr \hsize / 3 - 0mm\relax height \vsize }\relax
>
> \setbox 6 = \vbox {\XeTeXpdffile "Hoi-An TA menu (separate pages).pdf"
> page 6
>         width \dimexpr \hsize / 3 - 0mm\relax height \vsize }\relax
>
> \hbox to \hsize {\hfil \box 1 \rule \box 2 \rule \box 3 }\relax
>
> \hbox to \hsize {\hfil \box 4 \box 5 \box 6 }\relax
>
> \end
>
>
>
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