[scribus] single folded brochure format (?)

John Culleton john at wexfordpress.com
Fri Oct 22 14:31:05 CEST 2010


On Friday 22 October 2010 01:44:18 Peter Nermander wrote:
> > Not sure how old mine is. It goes back to 2005, perhaps earlier.
>
> I think I used the psutils tricks before Scribus existed. I used it
> together with LyX and GutenMark to impose Project Gutenberg books
> for praciticing bookbinding.
>
> But I don't like to have to go by postscript, so nowadays I try to
> use tools for PDF. What I would love is a pdfutils with the same
> functions as psutils. Maybe there is something out there today?
> Last time I searched (years ago) I didn't find anything.
>
> Calculating the numbers for an imposition is quite easy, it's the
> manipulation of the PDF that is the problem.
>
> /Peter
>
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In this imperfect world my solution is one, two, three.
1. pdf2ps (or save as ps)
2. run my script
3. ps2pdf
Done. 

I have no objection to a more graphic solution. But in its absence we 
can use the available one. 
-- 
John Culleton, Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/




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