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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>I 'grew up' with very basic layout programs (machine code) and
later learnt Corel, gimp, Lay Text, adobe, scribus etc. etc. so I
feel justified in adding my 2 cts!</p>
<p>Text: this is not so difficult. One just changes the paragraph /
text style. <br>
</p>
<p> Really! - that's why they these features are there. Naturally
the kerning, letter spacing and paragraph format will be changed
due to very small changes in the 'rendering' of true type fonts -
but they are "True Type" - they are (supposed to be) vector based
fonts (the first fonts were simple bitmaps and scaling was a
nightmare or impossible - consequently modern fonts already
incorporate the ability to be scaled). The interface you/I/we know
is Scribus, so just do it in Scribus.<br>
</p>
<p>Pictures: slightly more problematic as they are actually bitmaps,
so always start with the biggest format (highest resolution) and
then scale down.</p>
<p>Vector graphics: these evolved for exactly the same reasons as
true type fonts - vectors are scaleable, so just resize them.<br>
</p>
<p>- so for these three you need to do a <i>little </i>work.<br>
</p>
<p>Much more serious. I think, is what a.l.e mentions: "the designer
will try to convince her that you don't create the same design on
A4 or A0" and that is the real problem. In other words: one needs
to do the layout again for each format and " please recognize my
art / skills".<br>
</p>
<p>Programming is a kind of art, so is layout/design. If we want the
programming, in this case Scribus, to be the layouter / designer
and become as good as or better at it than we are, then we are out
of the equation. <br>
</p>
<p>And, anyway, you don't get intelligent programs for nothing ;-)
Software for nothing AND your chicks for free??? Rubber
biscuits???</p>
<p>BTW: IMHO 'even' adobe's multiformat outputs were never useful
(except maybe Dreamweaver - perhaps they became usable/better
after CS6)<br>
</p>
<p>mike<br>
</p>
<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 18/11/2019 18:25, ale rimoldi wrote:<br>
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cite="mid:20191118182548.05c06008@scharfeis.home">
<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">hi
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">a.l.e had given the most specific idea on how to try within Scribus:
I had to read between the lines and had to learn that he meant to
"select all (over all layers)" and to "resize" by a bold-mouse move:
I tried, and basically my document became a mess. A few elements got
bigger and moved to their places. But anything text was no joy. And
snapping to my (print-shop prescribed) bleed-limits did either not
work or my mouse-skills for A0 page-size are just not snappy enough.
I think my mouse tried snapping to the page-edges rather to the
bleed-edges but since my screen is somewhat smaller than A0, I am not
sure what happened.
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as somebody else wrote: it was a likely outcome.
but, theoretically, this is the scribus way of doing what you wanted to
do.
(and in some cases it works ok... after you have adjusted the text
frame heights)
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">I got more mails with ideas or even questions ("have you tried...")
and I conclude that Scribus has no inbuilt tools to publish several
sized-versions from one master document. Are we really the only users
needing that?
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">
no, everybody wants that!
but in most cases:
- you can just tell the print shop to print it at the desired size or
- you can scale a vector version of your original pdf
- you can use a tool that is dedicated to the editing of pdfs (and have
the money for it) or
- you know somebody who understands
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://lornajane.net/posts/2015/scaling-and-sizing-with-pdfjam">https://lornajane.net/posts/2015/scaling-and-sizing-with-pdfjam</a>
- and most of the time the manager will want to simply scale up or down
the pdf, while the designer will try to convince her that you don't
create the same design on A4 or A0.
when you don't have the money, don't have the hacker skills, don't have
the time, don't trust your printer, and don't want the designer to redo
her work... you might be out of luck...
ciao
a.l.e
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