LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 07:26:57AM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
> Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Mon, 20 Dec 2021 20:55:18 -0500
> 
> >On Mon, Dec 20, 2021 at 03:49:33PM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Because I
> >> personalize every book, I need to recompile for every order, so I
> >> might research using PDFTeX. Thanks for the tip.  
> >
> >Does the personalization change every page or just a few?
> 
> Almost every page. There's a command defined in the doc's preamble, and
> before compilation, the person's name is substituted for a token in the
> name. That command prints in the page footers on every mainmatter page
> that isn't the first page of a chapter.
> 
> The footer says "Prepared exclusively for Scott Kostyshak", discretely,
> in a red/maroon bar.

Thanks for those details. If the footer is in the same x,y location of
every page, it might be fast to use a program like pdftk to overlay a
"stamp" on each page, rather than recompiling.

Scott
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