Dear Sir or Madam,<div><br></div><div>In looking for page-layout software within the price range of my non-existent budget, I found and downloaded Scribus and GhostWriter.</div><div><br></div><div>I have already laid out a book using Publish 2007, all seventy-two pages on nineteen double-sided folios. A copy of the master has been cut and is ready to bind.</div>
<div><br></div><div>However, I would like to do the lay-out in in three-sheet signatures of twelve pages, since glueing may prove better with folds than with single edges.</div><div><br></div><div>The page number lay-out for the first signature should be:</div>
<div><br></div><div>Sheet 1 of Signature 1, recto, left to right: Page 12 & Page 01</div><div>Sheet 1 of Signature 1, verso, left to right: Page 02 & Page 11</div><div><br></div><div>Sheet 2 of Signature 1, recto, left to right: Page 10 & Page 03</div>
<div>Sheet 2 of Signature 1, verso, left to right: Page 04 & Page 09</div><div><br></div><div>Sheet 3 of Signature 1, recto, left to right: Page 08 & Page 05</div><div>Sheet 3 of Signature 1, verso, left to right, Page 06 & Page 07</div>
<div><br></div><div>Page 01 is blank.</div><div>Page 02 is blank.</div><div>Page 03 is the Title Page (not marked with page number).</div><div>Page 04 is the copyright page (not marked with page number.</div><div>Page 05 is the Dedication Page (no page number or title banner).</div>
<div>Page 06 is the blank reverse of the Dedication Page.</div><div>Page 07 is the Acknowledgments Page (no page number or title banner).</div><div>Page 08 is the blank reverse of the Acknowledgments Page.</div><div>Page 09 is the Table of Contents (page ix in the bottom right-hand corner, in italics).</div>
<div>Page 10 is the blank reverse of the Table of Contents.</div><div>Page 11 is page 1 of the text body (header banner has the title on the outside and the page number on the inside.</div><div>Page 12 is the blank reverse of the Introduction.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Page 13 would be on the right end of the recto of Sheet 4, Signature 2</div><div><br></div><div>The book is 5.25 inches wide with half-inch margins all the way around except for the gutter, which is three-quarters of an inch wide. It is 8.5 inches high and about three-eighths of an inch thick. The dimensions were determined by my itsy-bitsy budget and the need to use letter-sized photographic paper for the cover.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Can Scribus be used to accomplish this?</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div><br></div><div>Christine Wolfe, author</div><div>the,<a href="mailto:ubiquitous.wolfe@gmail.com">ubiquitous.wolfe@gmail.com</a></div>