<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:18px"><div class="" style=""><span class="" style="">Original Message:</span></div><div class="" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 18px; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-style: normal; background-color: transparent;"><span class="" style="">From: John Culleton<br style=""></span></div><div class="" style="background-color: transparent;"><span class="" style="">To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br class="" style=""></span></div><div class="" style="">Sent: Tuesday, September 23, 2014 5:37 PM<br class="" style=""></div> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 18px;" class=""> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida
Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" class=""> <div dir="ltr" class="" style=""> <hr size="1" class="" style=""> </div><div class="" style=""><br class="" style="">I downloaded a camera manual pdf which is laid<br class="" style="">out thus:<br class="" style="">first page holds print pages 1 & 2 side by side.<br class="" style="">Second page holds 3 & 4 side by side.<br class="" style="">etc.<br class="" style="">I want to make a booklet of single print pages.<br class="" style=""><br class="" style="">Once I get the single pages in two files (even<br class="" style="">and odd) I can shuffle them as needed using<br class="" style="">pdftk, pdfbook etc. But I need to trim the double<br class="" style="">pages down to singles. Can I do this in Scribus<br class="" style="">somehow? <br class="" style=""><br class="" style="">Brain teaser for the week.<br class="" style=""><br class="" style="">John<br class="" style=""><br class=""
style="">John Culleton<br class="" style="">Wexford Press<br class="" style="">Free list of books for self-publishers:<br class="" style=""><a href="http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html" target="_blank" class="" style="">http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html</a><br class="" style="">PDF e-book: "Create Book Covers with Scribus"<br class="" style="">available at<br class="" style=""><a href="http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html" target="_blank" class="" style="">http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html</a><br class="" style=""><br class="" style="">---------------------</div><div class="" style="">There is a fairly easy to do this with Scribus:</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style="">Create a new document with the number of pages of your final document, which has the dimensions of your new PDF pages, which would probably be the height of your scanned pages and half their width. Then on each page create and Image frame --
could be full size for your new document page, or a little less if you want a margin. Then import each page of the scanned PDF file as an image, scale and place it in the correct position. You will import each page of your scanned document, once for the left side and once for the right side.</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style="">Thus, for the pages you scanned sheet 1 which has pages 1&2 side by side, do the following:</div><div class="" style="">In your new document on page 1, in an image frame "get image" of sheet 1 PDF, then scale and position it so that it fills the height, but only the page 1 (left half) shows. Now do the same thing on page 2, but this time you scale the PDF sheet 1 so that only the right half (page 2) part shows.</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style="">Then you can do the page rearranging to print it the way you want. There is a program (I have forgotten it now) which will
automatically rearrange the pages the way you want them. Also, some printers (and some print service providers) can do this fairly automatically.</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style="">Hope this helps.</div><div class="" style=""><br></div><div class="" style="">Murray</div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>