[scribus] I love Scribus!!!

[Karl Sickafus]

Just a note to the developers. This is a great program!

I have learned how to script for Scribus with Python to pull in data from external spreadsheets.

This alone is the single most powerful tool we can use at our operation. It's much easier and much more intuitive than any off-the-shelf application I have ever used.

Your support forums and wikis are extreeeeeeeemly helpful.

The speed at which you respond to requests is almost inspirational.

Keep up the great work.

karl

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Today's Topics:

   1. Re:  Locating Images on disk that are included in a       Scribus
      document (Murray Strome)
   2. Re:  Locating Images on disk that are included in a       Scribus
      document (Christoph Sch?fer)
   3. Re:  how to export two A4 pages for printing A5 folder?
      (Frank Busse)


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Message: 1
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 19:55:09 -0700 (PDT)
From: Murray Strome <wmstrome at yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: [scribus] Locating Images on disk that are included in a
        Scribus document
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On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:20 PM, "Christoph Sch?fer" <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote:
---<snip>----

> Did you try Extras > Manage Images? It shows the path to every image you
> use in the document.
>
> HTH
>
> Christoph

Yes, I did try that. Indeed, it does list the path to every image in the document. However, it does NOT reference the images to the image number in the Properties for the individual images, so it is somewhat difficult to match them.

Murray





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Message: 2
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:24:20 +0200
From: Christoph Sch?fer <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [scribus] Locating Images on disk that are included in a
        Scribus document
To: Scribus User Mailing List <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
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Am Mittwoch, 16. Juni 2010 04:55:09 schrieb Murray Strome:
> On Tuesday, June 15, 2010 4:20 PM, "Christoph Sch?fer"
> <christoph-schaefer at gmx.de> wrote: ---<snip>----
>
> > Did you try Extras > Manage Images? It shows the path to every image you
> > use in the document.
> >
> > HTH
> >
> > Christoph
>
> Yes, I did try that. Indeed, it does list the path to every image in the
> document. However, it does NOT reference the images to the image number in
> the Properties for the individual images, so it is somewhat difficult to
> match them.

That is indeed the case, The reason is that the Properties Palette shows the
name of the image frame, not the image itself. This makes sense, IMHO, since
you can load another image into a frame any time. The good news is that the
Image Manager has been rewritten, and should you decide the development
version 1.3.7 (something many users already do), the dialog shows both: the
path to an image and the name of the image frame (and a lot more, btw).

HTH

Christoph



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Message: 3
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2010 09:51:53 +0200
From: Frank Busse <frank at busse.oche.de>
Subject: Re: [scribus] how to export two A4 pages for printing A5
        folder?
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@a.l.e: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 12:01:10 +0200

> you have to use an imposition software for it:
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Category:HOWTO#Imposition

after some testing of the "Multiplatform" suggestions:

- Multivalent req'es outdated Java 1.4 to be installed. Trying to run with a current JRE is running into "java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: tool.pdf.Impose" error.

- PoDoFo (on-line) appears to be unaccessible

- PDFSaM is a well-done collection of PDF-tools, but lacks imposition features (in particular like n-up printing)

- jPDF Tweak is a bit tricky to use, but appears to be most functional (and, by now, stable). Did not find a settings export or batch function though.

Creating an imposition for an A5 folder (including 2-up printing and bleeds) with Scribus and jPDF Tweak req'es...
(1) in Scribus
  - setting Units to "Pt" (because jPDF Tweak will need the correct numbers)
  - selecting "double page" document layout
  - setting "blend" for outer, top and bottom (NOT left) margin
  - export to PDF
(2) in jPDF Tweak
  - in "Page Size" set "Scale Pages", "Portrait" and Width/Hight manually
  - in "Shuffle/N-up" set "Shuffle", "A4 Portrait" and "Booklet Portrait"
  - RUN ;-)

Maybe this helps one or the other - or for creating a Scribus script.



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