Phil Mendelsohn wrote: > Hi - I believe that I am so busy getting a newsletter I edit out that I > am not spending the time to learn the tool (Scribus) properly. Can > anyone suggest the easy way to do the following tasK, semi-automagically? > > I make a newsletter that is usually 20 or 24 pages, 8.5 x 11, but > printed on 11 x 17, saddle stitched (stapled) and folded. It is also > released in .pdf format. > > Currently, I do the master by laying out the single sheet format, which > can be printed to .pdf for the electronic version. Then I create a > Ledger size document, and copy the laid-out pages in the appropriate > order to make the printing master. > > 1: I know how to do master pages for page numbers in the single sheet > version. Is it possible to do them in the large version? The page > numbers follow a different sequence when laid out for printing. (The > first sheet would have 20, 1, 2, 19, then the second would have 18, 2, > 3, 17, etc...) > > 2: Is there an easier way to arrange the pages than either copying the > individual pages from one document to another, or (ick!) printing .pdf's > and importing them? > You might check this out:
http://documentation.scribus.net/index.php/Booklet_Printing which goes about the process of doing this from within Scribus, and as a bonus at the bottom, there is a script which can be used as an aid to get this sequence right and easily so every time. Greg
