[scribus] Printing as Spread

[Louis Desjardins]

2011/7/22 Andreas Vox <avox at arcor.de>

> Louis Desjardins <louis.desjardins at ...> writes:
>
> > The other thing I would like to find out is the coding effort in time.
> >
> > Once we know the coding time required, we will then have to ask ourselves
> > what particular coding skills does that imply. Then we could decide
> whether
> > it's worth the effort or not considering all the other specific
> requirements
> > that are also worth digging.
> >
> > The initial question raised in this thread still remains to be answered.
> >
>
> My estimate is it would take me 1-2 days to implement this for PDF export
> (no
> imposition but just a simple yes/no option resp. the signature size for
> booklets)
>

Andreas,

Many thanks for this estimate.

Just so I get it completely, what does "resp." mean?

Do you mean that 3 or more pages could be printed side by side as we expect
in 3-fold and 4-fold?

>
> Output would be a PDF where the page size is the sum of the combined pages.
> Bleed etc. would be clipped where two pages meet.
>

Yes, this is expected. No bleed where pages meet.

>
> For PDF export the code is very similar to PDF embedding, so it would be
> a good idea to combine it when we finish PDF embedding.
>

Does that mean that in your view the "spread" option has to be done after
the PDF embedding is finished? Or can they be done separately and combined
afterwards?

>
> Implementing the same for Postscript would take longer.
>

At first glance, I believe that taking care of the PDF is already something
and we can leave the Postscript file aside.

Cheers!

Louis

>
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