On Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:28:16 +0100 (MET) Peter Nermander <m8130 at abc.se> dijo: > > Currently (as far as I know) Scribus will only import the first page of a PDF, > and it will be imported as a bitmap image. Thus you will have to split your > document into one PDF per page, and then import each page on its own. And it > will consume a huge amount of memory, not to mention the size of the data to > print. > > I suggest you have a look at Multivalent and its impose function instead. > http://multivalent.sourceforge.net
Thanks to all who suggested solutions. It looks like Scribus is not the tool. I thought of Scribus because in the bad old days of using Windows I would have done this in InDesign. InDesign has scripts which will place multipage PDF files into a new InDesign file, then InDesign can export the new file as an imposed PDF. I have done this in the past because occasionally I need to print two copies on a letter size page landscape to make two half-letter books at a time. >From a cursory reading of the writeup on Multivalent it appears it will do the job. Evidently I just download the multivalent.jar file and put it somewhere, then run "multivalent" with the appropriate switches and commands, right? And then I'll have to spend a few hours trying to figure out the switches and commands to get it to make a new imposed PDF file. I have Adobe Reader 7.08 installed on my computer, but its print dialog box does not offer the printing options that others have suggested will do the job. Note that this is not Adobe Reader on Windows. The Linux version has a very rudimentary print dialog box. To make it print two copies on one landscape sheet might be possible, but I'd have to use a lp or lpr command to do so. I'm not even sure it could be done, and it would take as long to learn how to write the command as it would to learn how to use Multivalent, so I'm going to try to get Multivalent to do the job first. I also looked at Kpdf, which has a better print dialog box, but it still doesn't appear possible to make it print two copies at a time on a landscape sheet. I will use Scribus for the cover, however. That should be a simple, straightforward layout and design job.
