On Monday 27 August 2007 17:13:58 celsojr wrote: > Hi there! > My name is Celso, I'm from Brazil and I 'm starting finishing a project > that aims to finally solve the lack of high-end options when we talk 'bout > Imposition (more when we care about complex imposition, like 64 pages per > eg...) ^_^ > > The Project Calls EasyPose and I 'm very interested in solve some issues > with you, most regarded the use of Scribus as a "finalyzer" of the imposed > PDF. > > First of all, you could see some screenshots of EasyPose @ > > http://geocities.yahoo.com.br/celsojr2005/easypose/ > > since it is still in zeta release (far from a beta ^_^) there is no usefull > output yet... but the features are: > > Choose the individual pages sizes, choose the end (plate) size, auto-adjust > the margins, spaces and so on, determine the bleed. > Choose the pages to be imposed, can be any page of any PDF you have, > EasyPose firstly would'n care about the page size, so it would fit in the > previous pagesize selection. > Select the control elements that compose the plate, like color scales, > registration, logos, and whatever the user wants to use inside the margin > limits. > Later, the user folds (realtime) the whole page onscreen (O_o) and EasyPose > cares about the page direction, if it would be upside down, resuming, so > the imposition. > All calculations are done and most of the interface is ready... but I'm > stukked... the Ghostscript is great to RIP or PDF generation, but I must > embed the Postscript data of each page selected, so I could positioning and > rotate the correct pages throughout the final page. > The Ps and EPS generated via Ghostscript are all font-to-vector flatted > (huge PS files for each page, it is no use to work with it..) > So I thought EasyPose could easylly create the final layout in a ,sla file > and then use the pdf embedded image for the pages...but I saw the pdf , > althought is embedded, becomes rasterized in the output...that's too bad, > not just for the vector or the fonts, or even the resolution, but for more > acurated data, such overprint and trapping, which come within the pdf > files... all this is losted when the file is rasterized... does someone has > any idea of how can I go on? > > I can direct my output right to a Raster format, so inkjet, or laser > printers can be used, but, if I have to use the PDF in CPT or a outsider > RIP... what could I do? > > Regards! > Celso Junior > Brazil In addition to the Scribus facilities the Context version of TeX does pretty fancy page imposition. Read the main Context manual at http://www.pragma-ade.nl/show-man-1.htm on page 39 ff
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