[scribus] Taking the plunge with Scribus!

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Fri Apr 23 22:14:30 CEST 2010


On Friday 23 April 2010 14:39:40 Ole Madsen wrote:

> I read Bruce's report with great interest.  I too am tasked with
> producing a 12 page newsletter in two formats, for e-mailing and for
> printing at the local copy/print shop.  Like Bruce, I use legal paper
> folded in half, so each page is 7 inches wide and 8.5 inches high, - and
> I get two pages side by side on a legal sheet in landscape mode.
>
> I find it convenient to produce the 12 pages individually and then
> export to pdf.  Once I have 12 pdf files, I combine them into one master
> pdf  with kpdftool.  This part of the process works fine.
>
> However, the print shop, I am dealing with, prefers for me to do the
> imposition, and I have been giving them separate pdf files for pages
> 12-1, 2-11, 10-3 and so forth.  This too works OK, but I would like to
> avoid the extra work of re-arranging the pages.
>

As I posted before you can create imposition by  using the PSUtils package. 
I posted the script I use for my task. Your script might be a little 
different. 
-- 
John Culleton
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/





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