[scribus] Page ordering broken for pdf export on 1.3.7 ?

Julian Haines jah0003 at utvinternet.com
Thu Sep 30 21:40:41 CEST 2010


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Culleton [mailto:john at wexfordpress.com] 
> Sent: 30 September 2010 14:52
> To: Scribus User Mailing List
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Page ordering broken for pdf export on 1.3.7 ?
> 
> On Thursday 30 September 2010 04:55:09 Julian Haines wrote:
> > Hi John,
> >
> > On Wednesday 29 September 2010 19:00 John Culleton wrote:
> > > > Here is the easy way. Save the file in normal order as a
> > > > postscript
> > >
> > > file. Then use PSUtils programs ...
> >
> > Thanks! That looks like an interesting solution for Postscript.
> >
> > Unfortunately I'm looking for a pdf output. Given that I have only
> > 8 pages to order, I think it should be even easier directly from
> > Scribus, except I'm either doing something wrong this time, or it's
> > broken in 1.3.7 on Win XP. I don't see a bug report in the tracker
> > for this.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Julian
> >
> > --
> > Julian Haines
> >
> 
> 
> Sorry, I forgot to mention two other utilities that come with the 
> Ghostscript package, pdf2ps and ps2pdf. You can save your 
> Scribus file 
> in ps format, manipulate the pagination with one or two commands from 
> PSUtils and then use ps2pdf to get to a pdf file.  Or if you already 
> have a pdf file then use pdf2ps as the first step.
> 
> If Scribus comes up with a reliable, bug free and understandable 
> method for doing pamphlet imposition then all this is beside the 
> point. But until then the proven PSUtils and Ghostscript packages are 
> there for your use. 
> -- 

Okay, thanks, that sounds like a solution. However, it was *much* easier
before when I used Scribus 1.3.3.13 to do the job!

Julian





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