2014-06-18



For a party, I had to create some paper cards. I had a  bunch  of
images to place on them. First, I cropped the images and modified
them as needed, using the GIMP. Then, I needed to place  four  of
them  on each page. The number each image had to appear differed.
And there were two images which were needed in double  size  (two
per page). For this task, using latex would be the best choice, I
thought -- and it was.

This small document is all I needed:

     \documentclass[a4paper]{scrartcl}
     \usepackage[utf8]{inputenx}
     \usepackage{graphicx}
     \usepackage[margin=1.5cm]{geometry}
     \newcommand{\w}{8cm}
     \newcommand{\p}[4]{
             \includegraphics[width=\w]{#1} \hfill
             \includegraphics[width=\w]{#2} \vfill
             \includegraphics[width=\w]{#3} \hfill
             \includegraphics[width=\w]{#4} \clearpage
     }
     \begin{document}
     \includegraphics[height=17cm,angle=90]{foo-double}
     \vfill
     \includegraphics[height=17cm,angle=90]{bar-double}
     \clearpage
     \p {baz} {baz} {baz} {baz}
     \p {baz} {quux} {quux} {quux}
     \p {blub} {blub} {fizz} {piff}
     \end{document}

Creating the \p command was the important  part  to  keep  it  so
small.  Then I was able to *generate* the whole PDF in one go ...
and recreate it in a second (okay, minute,  because  Latex  isn't
that fast) whenever I changed something.



http://marmaro.de/lue/        markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>