Write the book first, without caring about imposition, then follow the steps.
Guillaume Le mercredi 12 juillet 2006 08:29, Nicholas Vettese a ?crit : > 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" <guillaumep at fcms.ca> > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
