Thanks, Peter. That's all good to know. I'm sorting more of this out as I go along. I did manage to get the newsletter imposed using Acrobat Reader, and that will work for now. But I do want to know more about how this all works. -Joe
----- Original Message ----- From: "Peter Nermander" <[email protected]> To: <scribus at lists.scribus.info> Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2008 12:49 AM Subject: Re: [scribus] Using Scribus for a newsletter >>> 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 >>> lpr $1o.ps >>> echo 'switch paper' >>> read x >>> lpr $1e.ps >>> rm $1p.ps $1e.ps $1o.ps $1b.ps > >> That sounds very interesting. I assume you run the script from the >> Script >> tool in Scribus. How do you save it into a file to run it? Do you just >> save >> it in something like notepad and give it a particular suffix? > > The above is a linux shell script, running it under MS Windows won't work. > You will have to create a corresponding BAT-file. Something like: > > 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 > copy %1o.ps LPT: > echo 'switch paper' > pause > copy %1e.ps LPT: > del %1p.ps %1e.ps %1o.ps %1b.ps > > (I'm not sure all that works, I just "translated" the parts I know are > wrong, but more things might need to be changed.) > > > Under Windows I prefer to use Multivalent, it works directly on PDF. > > I have BAT files like the following: > > @echo off > set javarun="c:\program files\java\jre1.5.0_02\bin\java.exe" > set multivalent="c:\path to\multivalent.jar" > > %javarun% -cp %multivalent% tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x1 -layout 2,3,4,1 > -paper "297x210 mm" -verbose %* > > (Not sure what this one does, you will have to read the documentation for > Multivalent to know what options to use for your task. I think it will > make 4-page signatures (not a saddle stiched booklet)) > > Genereally for things like this you should never ever just copy someones > script straight off, you must understand what each step does or else you > might damage your system (by deleting important files by mistake). > > /Peter > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
