[scribus] making 11 by 17 page layout

Wesley Allen wezlo at crosspointings.org
Sun Feb 22 02:56:11 CET 2009


On Feb 21, 2009, at 8:48 PM, Alison Saylor wrote:

> That's so interesting, sounds like it's pretty normal and in fact
> requested by printers to have them sent in the exact format I gave
> them to the printer.  Good to know, thanks!

Yes, it's common.  I send 5.5 x 8.5 formatted pdf's to a local printer  
all the time to create booklets.

Wes
>
>
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Michael Harvey <mharvey1 at shaw.ca>  
> wrote:
>> Hi Alison,
>>
>> I see you got lots of help with the page sizes. I just tried my  
>> Scribus
>> 1.3.3.12, same as yours I think. A page 11x17 is called Ledger, set  
>> at
>> Landscape. I did not try fitting pages into it but you should be  
>> able to put
>> margins and guidelines where ever you want.
>>
>> I am working on a similar layout and my printer told me to give him  
>> pdf's of
>> each half page, in your case, 8.5x11, and he would fit them onto  
>> the full
>> size 11x17's for printing. I expect to name my pdf files pg1, pg2,  
>> etc., so
>> he can easily see where to put them.
>>
>> --
>> Mick
>>
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