On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 08:57 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote: <snip> > > > 3. Lack of booklet printing. I know all the work around etc etc etc. > > But these are Windows Users! These are people who expect a paper clip > > to pop up and ask if they need help writing a letter! This is a very > > common query on this list which makes me think it would be a popular > > upgrade... > > Yep. I think everybody's aware of the large group of users for whom it > matters. Getting it done is another thing, since that group aren't > exactly full of people volunteering to dive into some sometimes-hairy > C++ code to implement it.
I guess that was what I was doing...? > > > Now I may be wrong but I imagine this is possibly relatively easy to > > code. > > 1: No > > 2: Collapsing runs is currently not easy at all; PDF object streams > wouldn't be too hard but would only be compatible with Adobe Reader 6 or > 7; true font subsetting is certainly not trivial even before you work > around the myriad different bugs in clients. > > 3: Probably not too bad. I had a bash at it myself but (surprise > surprise) got bogged and ran out of time. It's certainly not a trivial > job and requires changes to more than you might expect but it's far from > impossible. > Lets be clear - I never even contemplated that I could fix tables or the character placement thing!! > If you're prepared to spend a bunch of time learning the code base and > learning C++ then yes, it's quite possible. Ok - so my first starting point would be to learn some C++ - perhaps I'll do that and come back to you when I've sussed out a bit more than 'hello world!' - and then I'll come back to IRC. > > No chance you could do any of this with a plugin. I'm not too sure what > true table support would entail, but it'd probably be a lot of work in > PageItem, the canvas, etc. However I think there's work in progress on > this (?) . Thought so - although could a plugin actually just import the A5 booklet sheets into A4 in the right places? Never expected to sort table support - and likewise I also think someone is doing it as part of 1.3.4 from whats been said b4. > > Booklet printing can be done in a couple of ways. There should be a big > document on the wiki somewhere (no time to look right now) discussing > different ways to tackle imposition. One of them - which I think is the > easiest to implement and best suited to simple tasks like booklet > printing - is to separate logical Scribus pages from "physical" PDF > pages so that one PDF page may contain zero or more Scribus pages > subject to suitable transformations. I've investigated this approach and > dome some preliminary work that might help. Most of the work here is in > pdflib . Perhaps that's what I've just asked above? A seperate scribus document that draws the content from the master? Is that what you describe? I can't see a wiki that relates to this just using psnup and pstop > > PDF size... well, there are a few areas to investigate here. Wasn't proposing to fix that - I'm not that daft!! > If you're serious about any of this you might want to drop in on IRC and > have a chat, since I've been a bit out of touch lately and there's some > background on some of this that I don't know. > > -- > Craig Ringer > > > -- > This email has been verified as Virus free > Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
