I use Scribus to create a small magazine of 16 to 20 pages. Many writers are involved.
I create the magazine with A4 pages. It's printed by a professional printer on A3 paper. I work on A4 because I often have to move pages around while I get the articles: I often get the last articles at the last minute, although the magazine is a trimestrial :-) I'm used to it, a long time ago I was journalist at a mensual magazine, and it was already like that... To go back to Scribus, the professional printer I use was imposing the magazine on A3 pages. But I was nice : When I generated the final PDF file, I 'printed' the page in the right order : 16, 1, 2,15,14,3,4,13,12,5,6,11,10,7,8,9 (for the 16 pages version). All the printer had to do is to impose to A3 without having to think about the order of the pages. I use the past here, because now I give the printer the stuff in A3 format. As I use Windoze, the only tool I found which is working is Multivalent http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ Below is the ugly little batch file I created to generate the A3 pages with the pages in the right order. The batch file expects as argument the name of the A4 generated PDF file. It is designed to work for a 16 A4 pages PDF. set multivalent="C:\Documents and Settings\Xavier Colmant\Multivalent.jar" java -Xmx128m -cp %multivalent% tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x1 -page 16,1,2,15,14,3,4,13,12,5,6,11,10,7,8,9 -paper "420x297 mm" -verbose %1% Note that the batch file has only 2 lines. You'll wrongly get the second line starting with: java... split in 2 lines in this email... It should be easy to adapt it to your flyer. I hope it can help... Xavier
