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

[Henry W. Peters]

I found a helpful read me doc for pdfjam at:
http://olympus.het.brown.edu/cgi-bin/dwww?type=html&location=/usr/share/doc/pdfjam/PDFjam-README.html

The wiki site really was not very indepth...  plus, I had to google &
found for Ubuntu... (my distro) how to get said script ('apt-get install
pdfjam' @ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=397456).

Thanks for clue Gregory... been wondering this for some time now.

Regards,
Henry

Gregory Pittman wrote:
> Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote:
>> I think it's time this question became a faq. Please CC the author on 
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>>   
> I think you're right Alex -- we probably need a number of links to it 
> from various directions.
>> ----- Forwarded message from "scribus.net" <wozmic at gmail.com> -----
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>> Reply-to: wozmic at gmail.com
>> Subject: [Contact Us] Splitting a book in multiple sla files
>>
>> Michel Wozniak sent a message using the contact form at  
>> http://www.scribus.net/?q=contact.
>>
>> 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 ?
>>   
> 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
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