Charles Newbury schrieb am Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2007: > Good Morning (my time)... > > I am a Freehand refugee since Adobe is dropping that wonderful application > from any further development. I?ve read many recommendations for Scribus as > a DTP application, so I?m going to give it my best shot. > > I?m now running Aqua Scribus on an iMac G5, OS 10.4.9. It took some doing > since it couldn?t initially find Ghostscript and I had to manually set it > to my /sw directory but now it launches without error. Regarding > preferences>tools, is it possible to set Fireworks as my graphic editor > rather than Python? > > My primary use for Scribus will be to make multi-page, letter-sized > booklets as programs for my community theatre. These are printed double > sided, landscape, US Letter, two columns. The booklets (playbills) will be > folded in half and stapled. I ran across a tip somewhere on the many pages > of the Scribus site that I expect will be studied extensiblyon how to make > a booklet. What wasn?t clear on first scan...are your pages created > full-sized in Scribus and then scaled to print side-by side in landscape > via pstops? > > Looking forward to a hopefully gentle learning curve. > > Charles Newbury
Hi, I usually give the pages half the size aof the final brochure (a5 instead of a4). Then I use a script called impose to get them into the order I need fpr printing. The script and directions can be found here: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_impositions_with_pstops Hope this helps Jan
