[scribus] How to print in different sizes

[Silvain Dupertuis]

Hi,
I do not see the need of resizing a document within Scribus
unless it needs further editing in the resized format.

Two suggestions :

1) It is easy to resize a PDF using PDF tools
(one of those being printing to a virtual PDF printer)

2) Here is a tip to do printing in different sizes with Scribus

 1. export the pages of the original document as PDF (one file per page, all of this can
    be optionally defined set up at export time)
 2. create a second document, blank, with the new size of the pages et the same number of
    pages
 3. create a frame of the size of the page on each page (create one and copy paste)
 4. place the PDFs created at the step 1 into the frames (the same as placing images as
    links).
 5. adjust image to page for each (this is where scaling takes place).
 6. export this new file to PDF (with the option embed PDF and EPS selected) - done !

In case you have to make some corrections, redo 1, reopen the second document and 
re-export to PDF - done.
Actually, if both documents are open, you do not even have to reopen the second document 
after modifications.
The document will automatically reflect the changes...

I am often using this procedure to print name cards on a A4 sheet
(prepare one at the size of a name card and place them as PDFs on a A4 page

or to impose pages for a brochure...

For example, in case of a flyer that you want to have in A3, A4, and A5, plus one version 
on 2 A5 on a A4 sheet.
Prepare your main document on A4 (for example), with images with a resolution good enough 
for further resizing.
Export it in PDF.
Prepare the documents for the other sizes and place the PDF on them.
Export to PDF (you can still choose the quality of images and the maximum resolution for 
each kind)

Hope these tips can help.

It works perfectly for me (with Scribus 5.3, version 4 had the option, maybe less 
reliable, I do not know).

Le 18.11.19 à 18:25, ale rimoldi a écrit :
> hi
>
>> a.l.e had given the most specific idea on how to try within Scribus:
>>
>> I had to read between the lines and had to learn that he meant to
>> "select all (over all layers)" and to "resize" by a bold-mouse move:
>>
>> I tried, and basically my document became a mess. A few elements got
>> bigger and moved to their places. But anything text was no joy. And
>> snapping to my (print-shop prescribed) bleed-limits did either not
>> work or my mouse-skills for A0 page-size are just not snappy enough.
>> I think my mouse tried snapping to the page-edges rather to the
>> bleed-edges but since my screen is somewhat smaller than A0, I am not
>> sure what happened.
> as somebody else wrote: it was a likely outcome.
>
> but, theoretically, this is the scribus way of doing what you wanted to
> do.
> (and in some cases it works ok... after you have adjusted the text
> frame heights)
>
>> I got more mails with ideas or even questions ("have you tried...")
>> and I conclude that Scribus has no inbuilt tools to publish several
>> sized-versions from one master document. Are we really the only users
>> needing that?
> no, everybody wants that!
>
> but in most cases:
>
> - you can just tell the print shop to print it at the desired size or
> - you can scale a vector version of your original pdf
> - you can use a tool that is dedicated to the editing of pdfs (and have
>    the money for it) or
> - you know somebody who understands
>    https://lornajane.net/posts/2015/scaling-and-sizing-with-pdfjam
> - and most of the time the manager will want to simply scale up or down
>    the pdf, while the designer will try to convince her that you don't
>    create the same design on A4 or A0.
>
> when you don't have the money, don't have the hacker skills, don't have
> the time, don't trust your printer, and don't want the designer to redo
> her work... you might be out of luck...
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
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