[scribus] Printing parts of a larger document on A4

Rolf-Werner Eilert eilert-sprachen at t-online.de
Tue Jul 9 11:07:30 UTC 2013



Am 09.07.2013 03:22, schrieb Gregory Pittman:
> On 07/08/2013 04:48 PM, Flem wrote:
>> 08/07/2013 22:05, Rolf wrote :
>>> do you mean "open a new 3-fold document" in Scribus? This
>>> would mean having two pages with another size than the third
>>> page: due to the third page being wrapped into the other
>>> two, it must be slightly more narrow, and so would the one
>>> printed on its back.
>> If you run Scribus, you get into a dialog box named "New
>> Document".
>> In that dialog, the third choice in the area called
>> "Document Layout" is "3-Fold".
>>
>> As you can see on its icon, the third page is not wrapped
>> into the other two: it is what we call in France a "pli
>> accordéon" ("accordion fold" if you translate it straight).
>> In that kind of folding, the 3 folds are of the exact same size.
>> So this is exactly what you need, doesn't it?
>>
>>
>>> This would include having 6 single pages and 4 with
>>> different sizes in one document. Is this possible in
>>> Scribus, and would it make sense? Do the pros practice it
>>> like this?
>> Depends on the type of fold...  :)
>> It's true for what we call here a "portfolio fold". Sorry
>> for I don't know the exact translation in English.
>>
> The thing to keep in mind is that the 3-fold is just a display option in
> Scribus, so that you can see the 3 pages side by side. So 3-fold A4 will
> be 3 A4 pages side by side. When you print out a 3-fold document, it
> will still print as individual A4 pages.
>
> Greg


According to my printing service, the pages and sizes have to be

page 5, 6, 1: 208, 210, 210
page 2, 3, 4: 210, 210, 208

mm wide

Do you think, Scribus would be able to manage it that way? Then I would 
indeed try to remake my project.

Rolf




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