[scribus] (forw) [wozmic at gmail.com: [Contact Us] Splitting a book in multiple sla files]

[Gregory Pittman]

Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
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I think you're right Alex -- we probably need a number of links to it 
from various directions.
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> Michel Wozniak sent a message using the contact form at  
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> Hi,
> I'm presently writing a 300 pages book using Scribus, containing some 160  
> illustrations.
> I'm now at page 100 and I realize that launching Scribus takes almost 4  
> minutes on a last generation computer. So I thought of splitting my book in  
> one sla file per chapter.
> I'll have to send a complete PDF file to the printing press and I was  
> wondering how I could join all the different PDF files in one single file.  
> Does Scribus allow that, or does Scribus allow to export incrementally  
> (adding the exported content to an existing PDF file) ? I have unfortunately  
> no budget to buy a Adobe Distiller licence. So, do you have an idea how I  
> could generate a signe PDF X3 file from multiple SLA files ?
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Because of the problems with speed, it is generally recommended to break 
your project up into no more than about 30 pages each. You will need to 
pay attention to page numbering, of course.

Make these smaller PDFs then join them, using other tools.
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_pdf_impositions_with_pdfpages_and_pdfjam    
indicates one such utility
There is also pdftk that can handle this joining of multiple PDFs.

Greg