Am Samstag, 23. Juni 2007 01:10 schrieb John Jason Jordan: > In the past I would do this with an InDesign script on Windows. I could > still do so, but I'm trying to learn how to do things without Microsoft > or Adobe. > > I am about to receive a 200-page PDF file (a book) from a customer. > The output will be to laser. The format will be half-letter, that is, > 5.5 inches wide by 8.5 inches high. The PDF file will be in this > format. Since it will be printed on 8.5 x 11 paper landscape, I need to > place each page of the PDF twice on each side. That is, the first sheet > will have page 1 twice on one side and page 2 twice on the back. The > second sheet will have page 3 twice on one side and page 4 twice on the > back -- and so on. The books will be printed collated so each copy > coming out of the laser is really two copies of the book. Before > binding the stacks are cut in two with the guillotine. > > I have Scribus 1.3.3.8 on Ubuntu Feisty amd64. It runs just fine, but I > don't think it can place PDF files one page at a time. Others have > mentioned to me ps2pdf, but it's command line and the syntax to do an > imposition is impossible to figure out. Is there anything else I can > use to do this imposition? Or can it be done in Scribus now?
Hi John Jason, what you need is either Multivalent PDF tools: http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/Tools/index.html or pdftk: http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/ HTH Christoph
