2011/7/21 a.l.e <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ale.comp_06@xox.ch">ale.comp_06@xox.ch</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">hi,<br>
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Would it be a long-coding task to make available an option that would allow<br>
to "Print as Spread" a certain number of pages?<br>
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What would be involved here if we'd like to implement this in the Print and<br>
in the Export to PDF dialogs?<br>
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i guess that it is "easy" to do, if all scribus users agree that they never will request anything more complicated than what acrobat reader offers as booklet print.<br></blockquote><div><br>Booklet print is *not* what I have in mind at all here.<br>
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since i'm sure that the day this is implemented, we will have requests to do more than that (yourself are talking about "a certain number of pages" which won't always match 2), i'm not really comfortable with the idea of adding it to scribus.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Per this discussion, it is assumed that a spread can be at least up to 3 pages organized side by side. Since Scribus is already able to *display* 4 pages side by side, why not ask to be able to print a spread of 4 pages? Then, I only wonder if the limit is purely a matter of simple math, adding up the pages that would fit a particular need up to n pages (I understand there has to be a limit, I only wonder what is the limitation, what is the cost in coding time to enable 4 or 5 or more pages as a spread?).<br>
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what we need is a program whici is able to correclty spreadify PDFs created by scribus... and we were very close to have one with podofo impose some time ago...<br></blockquote><div><br>We could discuss about the term "imposition" but in my view, this is *not* "imposition" (as such) or it is a word abuse. A cover page of a book has certainly 3 parts (at least) but it is only for commodity that we would consider them as 3 pages of a spread instead of one single page. At imposition stage, the cover will be printed n-up on a larger sheet. We do not expect the printer to assemble first the cover from its 3 basic components and then impose (really) the work. The final PDF sent to the printer would have to be a full spread of the 3 elements. Only then could the imposition happen.<br>
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition</a><br><br>A pamphlet printed at 10K copies would have to be "imposed" n-ups on larger sheet. (Please refer to the wikipedia article. The picture shows 8 pages on a single sheet. A letter-size pamphlet would be one of those pages, stepped and repeated 8 times — but with a gap between each step so the finished job could be cut to size and then folded). What I am talking about refers to design and production of logical portions of the work (pages, panels, sections), created as distinct pages but meant as one body) bound to be printed together, no matter how they are going to be imposed in the end.<br>
<br>Being able to print as spreads could certainly considered a step towards imposition but imposition is really another story. For this, I 100% agree, we would need a distinct program.<br><br>For proofing purposes it is very common to print magazines as reader’s spread. It's a good way to see each spread, as the pages will appear to the reader. This is done from within the application (proprietary software), without special manipulation. It's all about convenience, quality control and proofreading. It also saves costs to be able to print 2 pages on a larger sheet.<br>
<br>Cheers!<br><br>Louis<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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can't that project be brought to life again?<br></blockquote><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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ciao<br><font color="#888888">
a.l.e</font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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