I am looking to adjust the margins on the page and shift all content to the right by 1/2 inch in a pub-loosleaf division. I have updated the PL spec but Is there any way to accomplish this compose without updating frills and other generated content on the page?
Raymond,
That is a tricky one.
The only way to call in the new layout is to recompose the page.
But you and I know that this is a no go for a looseleaf publication.
So can be done?
Well you could first store the current update number and publication date of every page or depend on the information that is stored in the LOEP spec (you can read that out in xml format).
Then you would have to compose all pages individually (compose -sp -fa)>
This will call in the new layout (I hope) but keep the same content on every page.
(if not you will have to compose every page individually)
The using the divflags utility you can reset the date and change number of every page to what is was originally.
The only problem with this is that is you are using vertical justification, you result will not be correct as you need to compose more that one page in order to get a correct vertically adjusted page.
Anyhow make a copy of the job and experiment a bit.
You may like the outcome or not...
Good luck
Bart
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