And what about bookbinder someone already mentioned on this list? www.quantumelephant.co.uk/bookbinder/bookbinder.html Did you try it?
--N 2008/9/8 Pierre Marchand <capparis at free.fr> > Vous (Mike Morris) avez ?crit : > > If I correctly understand the Scribus documentation, in order to do this > > with Scribus, one needs an additional utility, either "psutils" or > > Multivalent. > > > > Is that correct? > > Yes. The idea here is that while it would be nice to have such printing > feature into Scribus, it's well handled by dedicated softwares and thus we > can spend more time coding critical features - and some imposition tool :) > > > > > I found a mailing list response from March of 2006 that provides sources > to > > download either in Windows versions. I connected to the two websites, > but > > I am still unclear which to use (if, in fact I am correct in concluding > > that one or the other must be used). In order to use Multivalent, is it > > necessary to convert the Scribus file to PDF first? From the description > > on the website, that appears to be the case. > > I don't know any tool that can impose a native Scribus file. So yes, you > need > to first export the document in a suitable format. Although it can be an > hidden operation if your printer driver offers such a feature. > > > Apparently, with psutils, the booklet can be created directly from the > > Scribus file. Is that correct? > > No. > > > > What are the advantages/disadvantages of each approach? > > It depends. If you want to print it on an office printing device attached > to > our box, I would vote for the smart driver option. If you want to store the > resulting file, for getting it to a print shop or having it ready for > re-prints etc., the external tool which would produce an imposed PDF seems > fine. > > my 2 ? > > -- > Pierre Marchand > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Nahmsath P. YABOURI Centre Informatique et de Calcul Universit? de Lom? BP. 1515 T?l. +228 225 33 29 +228 938 20 29 Lom? - TOGO (West Africa) http://nyabouri.blogspot.com Linux User #435854 ---- Ne m'envoyez pas de fichiers attach?s au format Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) svp! Merci de lire http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html Mes format pr?f?r?s : .PDF, ODF, .TXT Merci d'ajouter ce texte ? votre signature. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080909/b56ae9e4/attachment.htm>
