<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On 11/17/2010 01:14 PM, Victor Papp wrote:<br>
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Hi<br>
<br>
IMHO its a wrong approach to use multiple duplicates with business cards.<br>
I always set the page size to 9x5cm (with bleeds if needed).<br>
And I do compose the card in this paper size.<br>
Then, i print to postscript and do imposition using pstops and convert to<br>
pdf with ghostscript for printing.<br>
I tried the multiple duplicate once, but with complicated cards (several<br>
layers of bg images, etc) it leads to very big files with reduced<br>
performance. Also, as mentioned above you cannot use master pages and layers<br>
in this case - or you should multiple duplicate each layer separately.<br>
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and the difficulty with that is....?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>The difficulty is: to multiple copy 12 cards per A4 page when you are using layers and master pages means:</div><div>1. copying all layers separately</div>
<div>2. copying master page separately.</div><div>3. if you need to change something in the card, you should delete all copies and restart.</div><div><br></div><div>Instead the above, I use the following script with the ps file produced by scribus:</div>
<div><br></div><div><div>call pstops -w50mm -h90mm "1:0R(0,1w)" <a href="http://1.ps">1.ps</a> _<a href="http://11.ps">11.ps</a></div><div>call pstops -w90mm -h50mm "12:0+0(1w,0)+0(2w,0)+0(0,1h)+0(1w,1h)+0(2w,1h)+0(0,2h)+0(1w,2h)+0(2w,2h)+0(0,3h)+0(1w,3h)+0(2w,3h)+" _<a href="http://11.ps">11.ps</a> _<a href="http://1.ps">1.ps</a></div>
<div>call pstops -w270mm -h200mm "1:0L(205mm,13mm)" _<a href="http://1.ps">1.ps</a> _<a href="http://2.ps">2.ps</a></div><div>call ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -dAutoRotatePages#/None -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress _<a href="http://2.ps">2.ps</a> ready-imposed-cards.pdf</div>
</div><div><br></div><div>This script puts 12 cards per an A4 landscape page.</div><div>I saved the script and am reusing it anytime for any business card (where <a href="http://1.ps">1.ps</a> is source file the script uses).</div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Victor.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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I am not hearing a simple procedure from you as an alternative.<br>
<br>
This can all be done inside of Scribus, unless you really want to use 3, 4, or 5 separate programs.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Victor Papp<br>skype: victorpapp<br>Tel. +38 050 5 141 142<br>