On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:06:56 -0700 (PDT) avox <avox at arcor.de> dijo:
> Julian Robbins wrote: > > Understandably, people keep asking about imposition tools in linux, and > > PDFTK and multivalent always get mentioned. > > > > I found the tool 'laidout' the other day. I'm not an expert in this > > whatsoever, but wondered why this is never mentioned? It is GUI driven > > which might help some people who are not so happy with cmd line perhaps. > > It a bit quirky looking, but is another tool that might help .. > What, you expect us to advertise for our competition? ;-) > No, seriously, I only heard about laidout a few weeks. It looks very > interesting. > Does anyone have experience with using laidout for imposition? > > > Also, there IS the beginnings of a useful PDF GUI Editor in Linux - > > called PDF Editor http://pdfedit.petricek.net > > That one is mentioned once in a while in our #irc channel and needs > watching. Where did y'all find laidout? The documentation for multivalent seems to indicate that it can burst a multi-page PDF into individual pages. These can then be laid out in Scribus, twice on each side if desired. So I can use Scribus the same way I used to use InDesign to do the two-up layout that I need. Except that for InDesign there is a script that does it automatically. It should be scriptable in Scribus as well, except that I'm not a programmer so I don't know how to do it. Meantime, I'd like to try laidout, if I can find it. It's not in Synaptic, and I have just about every repository enabled.
