[pdftex] post-pdf operations?

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Karl" == Karl Berry <karl at freefriends.org> writes:

    > 2) In TUGboat, we try to run articles together to save space, so
    > that sometimes one article ends and another begins on the same
    > physical page.
   
    >    In general, it's not possible to process multiple articles in
    > the same TeX run, because of conflicts in the packages, fonts,
    > etc.  (Believe me, we've tried.)
   
    >    So, the question is, is there a way to overlay two pdf pages
    > into one?
   
AFAIK, the graphics package has an option to extract a certain page
from an external document.  Alternatively you could use pdfpages.

To overlay two pages one could probably use LaTeX's picture
environment.

Regards,
  Reinhard

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