On Tue, 2006-01-24 at 11:29 -0800, Paul Stoffregen wrote: > Please forgive me for such a basic question... I'm a scribus newbie.
Nothing is stupid if you don't know how. I think we'd all rather explain and you learn Scribus than you give up! (And easy questions mean I get to give something back!) > > I'm working on a small 5.5 by 4.25 inch ad, where 4 will be printed per > letter-size page. > > Is there some way I can get my 5.5 by 4.25 custom size to "tile" or > "step and repeat", so 4 copies print onto letter paper. Or do I just > have lay it out 4 times and be careful to get all 4 identical ? > > > Thanks, > -Paul Not entirely clear what it is you are trying to do. I think its along the idea of putting 4 ads - identically on the page and then choping them once printed to give 4 ads roughly A6 in size - presumably like ivitiations/fliers etc. Like this: +------------+ |#A# #B# | |### ### | | | |#C# #D# | |### ### | | | +------------+ I know at least 3 ways to do this! Only 1 actually uses Scribus so lets describe that first. Method 1: Create the first 'advert' then group the objects and copy and paste x 3 identical groups. Use Properties (Right Click) to set the left (X-coord) for A and C the same, B & D the same, and then do the same for Y coord of A & B and C & D.. (There are probably options using guides etc as well, to snap the groups to) Method 2: Create a 1/4 Letter Page with the single advert on it and export to PDF. Then use psutils and n-up (they are supplied as functions within the kprinter PDF tool if you use KDE) to get it to put 4 on a page. You do this by printing the PDF (from Acrobat etc) to a new PDF document. Method 3: Use Multivalent (available from SourceForge.net) - Multivalent is free at command line but isn't opensource :-( but it could do the job too and works better for me than kprinter which seems not to like me!! Does this help? Calum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060124/5d2dd56f/attachment.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smiley-6.png Type: image/png Size: 796 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20060124/5d2dd56f/attachment.png
