[scribus] Combining Scribus Files

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Sat May 9 15:34:25 UTC 2020


On 5/9/20 11:17 AM, Tom Howard-Jones wrote:
> Hello;
> 
> I am new to Scribus and learning on the job.
> I am very impressed by the package so far.
> 
> Sorry if this is a dumb question; but I would very much appreciate some advice.
> 
> A group of us are writing a book.
> I am putting it into Scribus to be ready for printing.
> The book will have a lot of pictures – sourced as .jpg files.
> 
> Is it possible to combine Scribus files to build up the resulting final big file?
> I would like to be able to create a Scribus file for each chapter and then combine them as they are finished.
> That way the working files and the .pdf outputs are smaller and more manageable for sharing.
> Each of the files will have the same page structures as they are designed to be a component of the one document at the end.
> 

Hi Tom,

Depending on its size, it may be impractical to combine all of these within Scribus due to the size.
What can work better is to make PDFs then use some other tool to merge the PDFs.

Greg




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