[scribus] Using Scribus for a newsletter

Alex Mandel tech_dev at wildintellect.com
Tue Oct 7 06:44:40 CEST 2008


Joe Ward wrote:
>    Thanks to several of you, I did get my first newsletter out using
> Scribus, my printer is happy with it, and apparently it will reach
> neighborhood mailboxes as advertised. Thank you all very much.
> 
>     Jan, only after I had sent the issue off to the printer did I feel I
> had time to experiment with your suggestion about using  Acrobat Reader.
> I found that if I exported the pages from Scribus to PDF in the order
> they need to be in the newsletter, and then opened the PDF in Acrobat
> Reader, and clicked on "page display" and "2up" or "2up continuous," the
> reader would display all the correct pages side by side just as I had
> hoped.
>    Trouble is, I couldn't figure out what to do with it then. If I tried
> to save it or print it to file, it would revert to the single page
> configuration. How does one set reader to brochure printing?
> 
>                                                                            
>          -Joe Ward
> 

That gets specified in the print settings, when you go to print you'll
have a little preview window and some drop downs to choose multi-page 2up.

Alex





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