[scribus] Banners

Matias Silva matiassilva at gmail.com
Tue Sep 28 06:35:57 CEST 2010


On 9/27/2010 7:09 PM, Christoph Schäfer wrote:
> On Monday 27 September 2010 23:44:46 Matias wrote:
>> Hi everyone, I was using your software to make an old fashion banner, you
>> know the ones that are printed across multiple pieces of paper and then
>> taped together.  It took me about 20 minutes to make my banner, but it took
>> me hours to figure out how to print it out and have all the text line up.
>>
>> I wanted to use 11x17 paper, Ledger size.  I chose a custom size paper
>> specifying 68 x 11 as the measurements, in inches.  So when I printed it
>> out, it would either print the left side, or the center or I could only
>> scale it to fit the page.
>>
>> I ended up having to export the project to an image and then slice up the
>> image in Gimp.
>>
>> Is there an way to make a banner that prints out in multiple pages in
>> Scribus?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>
> Here are two links with hints on how you can do this:
>
> http://linuxandfriends.com/2009/07/07/print-huge-posters-using-your-desktop-
> printer/
>
> http://issaris.blogspot.com/2006/02/printing-huge-posters.html
>
> HTH
>
> Christoph
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First link worked beautifully.  Thank you very much.  I haven't tried the second one yet.

Best,
Matt



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