So do you write the book first, then follow the steps below, or do you follow the steps below, and then write the book?
Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Guillaume Pratte" <[email protected]> To: <scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de> Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:26 AM Subject: [Scribus] Some tips for 2 pages imposition > Hello, > > I have been encouraged by Louis Desjardins to post this tip to the mailing > list, so here I go. > > I am currently formatting a book that my grand-mother is publishing, and I > was > told by the printer (i.e. the business were my grand-mother will print the > book) to make the imposition myself. > > First I panicked for a short while when I saw that neither Scribus nor > LaTeX > seemed to have this feature implemented. I saw the page about imposition > on > the Scribus wiki [1] and it helped, but pstops [2] is still too much of an > esoteric command to use for me, event if I am a programmer by profession > and > I have been using Linux as my primary OS for at least 6 years. > [1] http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Imposition > [2] http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_impositions_with_pstops > > So I searched the web, and finally got my way around. The book is 5?x8?, > printed two pages on one 8?x11, cut in half (to make two 5?x8?) and one > pile > put on top of the other ("folded") to make the book. > > Here is how I made the imposition : > > 1) Render the book as PostScript. > > 2) Reorder the pages : > psbook book.ps temp.ps > > 3) Assemble them : > psnup -pletter -W5.5in -H8.5in -2 temp.ps book_for_print.ps > > 4) Edit the %%BoundingBox of book_for_print.ps with a text editor. Change > it > to : > %%BoundingBox 0 0 612 792 > This seems like a bug with psnup where it keeps the source dimentions for > the > BoundingBox instead of taking the output dimentions. > > The only thing I am not sure about is the duplex orientation. I made some > tests with my personnal printer and I went wrong. I will have to check > with > the printer (the business) to see if they can handle it or if I have to > change things from my side. > > Guillaume Pratte > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
