[scribus] Kind person who can help

[Victor Papp]

Hi.

This special and impositions of almost any complexity can be made 
quickly with basic postscript utilities (pstops and psselect).
I am doing this the following way.
1. Print the pages into .ps file.
2. Make a comma separated file that represents page order, like 
"1,4,2,6,etc any order you want".
Usually i am using oo calc for this. Its easy to define a formula and 
copy cells to auto-create the sequence.
3. Use psselect to reorder pages in ps file you made in (1) above and 
the values you created in (2) above.
This gives you a reordered ps file.
4. Now impose your pages into the actual format you are printing (A4, A3 
etc) with pstops
5. Either print your new ps directly or convert it to pdf using 
ghostscript (ps2pdf) and print the pdf

I know it looks complicated, but it is not.
Usually it takes a few minutes to put the whole thing together.
And after you have such a script, you can re-use it any time.

Victor


Rich wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-02-14 at 08:59 +1100, Owen wrote:
>
>   
>> You don't give enough information for your intention, a perpetual
>> calendar perhaps?
>>     
>
> What do you mean by perpetual ? 
> Sorry - english is my second language
>
>
>   
>> Do you want 366 single sided A5 pages, Jan 1->Dec 31
>>     
>
> Yes. Well - to have it in nice format I want to have 2 days printed on
> A4 paper, which after cutting will give A5 format. 
> All days. Actually January is gone so it can start on Feb or even March.
> Printed both sides.
>
>
>   
>> Do you want double sided (183 pages)
>>     
>
> Yes. That's the issue because days needs to follow - one after another
> after everything will be printed and bonded together. So there needs to
> be special order of days on page A4. After cutting I need to be able to
> put it together.
>
>
>   
>> And what information do you want on each page (Day and Month?)
>>     
>
> I need 50% space from top for meetings and objectives. There are going
> to be hours from 06:00 until 22:00 on left. and on right side
> objectives.
>
> Under it remaining 50% of space will be separated in half (25% and 25%)
> and there are going to be two more panels. 
>
> |---------|
> |         |
> |----|----|
> |    |    |
> |----|----|
>
> On top of page day, month, year. that will take max 5% rectangle
>
>
>
>   
>> Scripting is probably out of the question for you, though I suspect it
>> would be a useful script if written
>>     
>
> I was wondering if there will be a chance to write a script which will
> allow me to put pages in order for print. Everything else I can design
> as I have some small experience with Photoshop, Gimp, inkscape...
>
>
>   
>> Another approach would be to have a two fold publication. Sun and Wed
>> one side, Mon Tue the other (second sheet Thu Blank, Fri Sat) and just
>> fold, then bind or guillotine.
>>     
>
> Yes. I was thinking of something like that as well. Probably 7 days (not
> even) will be hard to match on page cut in 2 (even).
> Saturday and Sunday can go on one page half half like in many calendars
> on the market. That will solve problem
>
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