Os the firn Tuesday 26 September 2006 19:58, Tony Sperling wrote: > Herb, > > I probably shouldn't be commenting on this, but I am in the habbit of > printing PDF technical manuals as booklets on my HP PSC 2355. I have never > tried producing anything like a newsletter my self, but if I were up to > that, my first instinct would be to lay-out an ordinary multi-page > document - making all the definitions in scribus - import the text and any > images from somewhere else - convert it all to PDF, and simply send it to > the printer, configuring it for a 'Booklet job'. The HP Windows printer > driver should handle that with ease. You could even have it do the > portrait/landscape rotation for you, or do vertical/horizontal bindings > either left or right side. I do not think that it would be at all helpful > to try and set up Scribus to handle the page following for folding/cutting, > as you describe.
I do booklets from various flavors of TeX, often using Ghostscript scripts to format the file for printing. Here is a pair of linux scripts I use frequently. The output is on tabloid (11 x 17) paper: ******************************************************* psbook $1.ps $1b.ps echo 'psnup' psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter $1b.ps $1p.ps echo 'psselect' psselect -o $1p.ps $1o.ps psselect -e -r $1p.ps $1e.ps ****************************************************** lpr $1o.ps echo 'switch paper' read x lpr $1e.ps ***************************************************** Since Scribus lacks a Postscript output an initial step of converting the pdf to ps form would be needed, e.g.: pdf2ps $1.pdf $1.ps as the first line of the first script. The second script is run repetitively to print the booklets. My Ricoh printer does not duplex automatically. When I use the Context version of TeX the booklet making is built in to the software. -- John Culleton Able Indexing and Typesetting Precision typesetting (tm) at reasonable cost. Satisfaction guaranteed. http://wexfordpress.com
