2008/2/24, Peter Nermander <peter.nermander at abc.se>: > > >> So, if someone wants you to print a book, you want them to bring you a > >> file containing complete signatures? Not a file with single pages in > >> consecutive order? > > > > I hope this is not a serious question! :-) > > > Yes it is, because you seem to be only looking at ONE way of using a > 3-fold layout (for a simple 3-fold broschure). > > But a 3-fold layout can also be used for example in a user manual (where > you fold out a flap showing for example a picture of the control panel) or > in a tourist guide (where you fold out maps that are larger than a page).
The examples you give are larger pages, binded into a publication made of smaller pages. In these cases, it would also be wrong to hand those larger pages in smaller parts, or to consider the various panels as distinct "pages". A map is a case in itself, considering the various ways of folding it ? we can look at it as a large poster, folded. Again, this is layout and not imposition. It is not at prepress stage that we put together the portions of a page. This is clearly a task that must be handled upstream. I don't say that the feature is wrong per se. I say it is incomplete and it misleads people by making them believe they can use it and then output PDFs as separate pages while these are not, actually. The full spread they are putting together is in fact the real page here, not its components. I do say that it is a welcome feature to layout an array of jobs made of various panels that could be associated with pages, thus easier to look at and to set as separate pieces. Another example is the cover of a book, including the spine and the back cover. On a press, these 3 parts are considered as 1 single piece and it is very unlikely that they will be handed to the printer in 3 different "pages". If they are, this will in fact give extra work at the wrong stage of the workflow. The big missing part in that feature is that Scribus doesn't allow yet to print spreads. Unless you have the means to put those elements together dowstream, I can only suggest not to use it. HTH Louis /Peter > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080224/1725e323/attachment.htm
