[Scribus] Crash and export problems.

[Craig Bradney]

On Tuesday 17 January 2006 20:48, Calum Polwart wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-17 at 20:19 +0100, Craig Bradney wrote:
> > >      3. The alternative to jpegs would be pdf - in a book format (Page
> > > 1 next to 40, etc.).Unfortunately, scribus does not support this - and
> > > using pdf2ps -> psbook ist not an option: I tried and gs quit after
> > > about 600 megabytes(!) of output.
> >
> > Scribus 1.3.x will support this. Scribus 1.3.2cvs already supports
> > exporting, in your case, 40 pdfs, if that is what is required by a
> > printer.
>
> Just to be clear - scribus 1.3.2cvs allows you to tick a box that will
> export each page as a separate page.  It doesn't do any more than that
> (that's not a criticism - the development team are working as fast as
> they can!)  1.3.x (i.e. a version of 1.3 at some point in the future)
> will natively support booklet pdfs which can be printed direct to a
> print and stapled in the middle {I think that's what Craig is saying}.
> But there are other reasons to look at 1.3.2 (apart from the fact its
> MUCH better than 1.2.3!) - the page layouts far better support booklet
> layout that the 1.2 version did...
>
> Unlike Craig not to attach his usual - scribus don;t recommend 1.3.xcvs
> for production work!!

Actually I do recommend it.. :) I use it for production work.. but you have to 
expect to roll with the punches, as it were. We dont find issues without 
people using it. If you are.. please use todays CVS..:)

Craig
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