Hi, On 05/14/2007 12:49:11 PM, scribus-request at nashi.altmuehlnet.de wrote: > How difficult would it be to impliment such a function in scribus? I > have seen the "booklet" function in some HP printer drivers on > Windows, and PageStream at least USED to have a script that did it > (and on the coding side, PageStream is a one-man operation. Is it > acceptable for a one-man operation to accomplish more than the scribus > TEAM?).
In case you're interested, I've been programming software called Laidout to do impositioning to booklets, and even to wacky flattened polyhedra with non-rectangular pages. It's currently not very thoroughly tested, and has no native text features (nor will it for a while), but it can import EPS files and print out PS with them: http://www.laidout.org/screenshots/index.html#eps So if you can figure out how to mass export all pages in a Scribus document as EPS (I haven't figured that out!) you can mass import them to Laidout for impositioning. Speaking of EPS, I used to be able to import to Scribus an EPS exported from Laidout that includes Bezier patch gradients and images with masks, but lately I can't seem to do that. Scribus seems to now insist on importing the EPS elements rather than the EPS as a whole, unless I'm missing something? I'm working on a Scribus sla importer and exporter, but it'll be a few more weeks probably. Figuring out the multitude of tags in there as 1.3.3.* goes on is a little tricky. Tom PS, here's a feature comparison to various DTP software (including Scribus!): http://www.laidout.org/dtpcompare.html -------- http://www.laidout.org http://www.tomlechner.com
