On Thursday 14 February 2008 04:00:25 pm 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? > > I have looked a bit, but don't find the answer I want readily. > > Thanks, > Phil
I do exactly what you do but in plain TeX. After I arrive at a PostScript file I run these two Linux scripts, relying in turn on other common PostScript tools. Note that $1 is a placeholder for the main part of the file name, e.g., for foo.ps I simply say script1a foo. Unfortunately Scribus does not save directly to ps format but the utility pdf2ps could be used. script1a ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- psbook $1.ps $1b.ps echo 'psnup' psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter $1b.ps $1p.ps echo 'psselect' psselect -o $1p.ps $1o.ps psselect -e -r $1p.ps $1e.ps ---------------------------------------- script1b --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- lpr $1o.ps echo 'switch paper' echo 'don`t flip' read x lpr $1e.ps #rm $1p.ps $1e.ps $1o.ps $1b.ps -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Some of the tools mentioned are from psutils. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
