<html dir="ltr"><head></head><body style="text-align:left; direction:ltr;"><div>On Sun, 2018-09-23 at 08:50 +0200, Peter Nermander wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex; border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I would like to produce a small, portrait-oriented book using a</pre><pre>4-page-per-US-letter-sheet Cut and Stack imposition. I have a Macbook</pre><pre>Pro with OSX 10.13.6 and an HP P2055dn automatic duplexing laser</pre><pre>printer.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I am totally new to desktop publishing. Please let me know the</pre><pre>best/cheapest way to do that.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>The Scribus wiki has a page on different tools that can be used for</pre><pre>impositioning.</pre><pre><a href="https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/PDF,_PostScript_and_Imposition_tools">https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/PDF,_PostScript_and_Imposition_tools</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>For Cut and Stack it is really mostly the shuffling of pages that is the</pre><pre>hard part, the rest is more or less just N-up printing.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>I think that likely the most powerful tool in this case is jpdfTweak, but</pre><pre>figuring out the config string for the shuffling may not be an easy task.</pre><pre>But make a testing PDF of a suitable number of pages with just huge page</pre><pre>numbers on them and use some trial and error to make it work.</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>Do you mean 4 pages per sheet or 4 pages per side? Because I think if you</pre><pre>mean 4 pages per sheet (i.e. 2 pages per side), it will just be a booklet</pre><pre>impositioning?</pre><pre><br></pre><pre>/Peter</pre><pre>-------------- next part --------------</pre><pre>An HTML attachment was scrubbed...</pre><pre>URL: <<a href="http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20180923/c9407a40/attachment.html">http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20180923/c9407a40/attachment.html</a>></pre><pre>___</pre><pre>Scribus Mailing List: <a href="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.net">scribus@lists.scribus.net</a></pre><pre>Edit your options or unsubscribe:</pre><pre><a href="http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus">http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus</a></pre><pre>See also:</pre><pre><a href="http://wiki.scribus.net">http://wiki.scribus.net</a></pre><pre><a href="http://forums.scribus.net">http://forums.scribus.net</a></pre></blockquote><pre><br></pre><pre>This handy little tool does "cut & stack" imposition:</pre><pre><a href="http://www.noliturbare.com/pdf-tools/simple-imposition">http://www.noliturbare.com/pdf-tools/simple-imposition</a></pre><pre><br></pre><pre>It is a Windows program, but runs fine under Wine. I use it for booklets, 2-up, and cut & stack impositions. </pre></body></html>