Rich Shepard wrote: > On Wed, 25 Jun 2008, a.l.e wrote: > >> you could create the catalogue without the first page and make a pdf out >> of it. >> >> then create one or several documents with a bunch of first pages (200 >> pages is a bit too much for a scribus document...). export them as a pdf. > > That's what I would have done. Then I would use the pdftk (the pdf tool > kit) to concatenate the cover and the rest. It would need to be scripted, > and care taken to ensure one cover per catalog. > > Rich
Thanks for looking into it -- your support is really very encouraging, on the list and on IRC. The good news is: Scribus *just* finished producing 500 covers -- meaning it has run for 24 hours non-stop without complaining. The documents have been uploaded to the printers server now, we're keeping our fingers crossed the books will be delivered on time (pictures next week). We were actually only generating the cover (1 page). The inside was laid out by hand so yes, Rich and a.l.e. -- it would be a bit crazy (although next time... ;-)) to try and generate the whole book in one go. I've uploaded some more files, including earlier attempts with corrupted fonts (resulting in monstrous pdf's that open correctly on Ubuntu but crash the printers' preflight checker): http://ospublish.constantvzw.org/sources/pzicatalogue/ What I feared did not happen -- Scribus did NOT incrementally slow down, but just a few seconds were added each run (I think). I'll need to look again to find out what really happened; will check with python abled people here to see whether we can make it better and I am sure we (or you) will find another use to it! best, Femke
