LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Steve Litt]

Scott Kostyshak via lyx-users said on Wed, 22 Dec 2021 07:55:24 -0500

>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.

I might be able to do it that way, but if I could, somebody else could
easily use the same technique to undo it.


SteveT

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