LuaTeX vs XeTeX

[Scott Kostyshak]

On Wed, Dec 22, 2021 at 10:03:46AM -0500, Steve Litt via lyx-users wrote:
> 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.

I don't think it would be any more hackable that compiling from LaTeX. I
think you're right it's possible to have "layers" which make editing a
bit more easier, but it's also possible to "flatten" a PDF.

Scott
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