Sorry to post this here, Using bookbinder v.2 with scribus generated pdf, i can't get the imposition delimiters shown on the screenshot of the product. Is there specific parameters to set for that?
--N 2008/9/9 Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> > > If I correctly understand the Scribus documentation, in order to do this > > with Scribus, one needs an additional utility, either "psutils" or > > Multivalent. > > There are other ways too. > > Psutils work on postscript files and can create an imposition from a > postscript export. A suitable way if you have a postscript printer (since > you will then use postscript all the way from Scribus to the printer). > > Multivalent works on PDF files, which might be a better option. > > I also posted a link a couple of weeks ago to this program > http://www.quantumelephant.co.uk/bookbinder/bookbinder.html > > Although the preview the program shows can look VERY strange (it doesn't > seem to support other fonts than the core pdf fonts) the output seems to > be very similar to what I got from using QuiteImposing with Adobe Acrobat > this summer (I did the daily camp paper for a scout camp). > > > 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 > > Multivalent is written in java, so there is no "Windows version". The same > program works on Windows, Mac or Linux. > > > Apparently, with psutils, the booklet can be created directly from the > > Scribus file. Is that correct? > > No, you will have to export to postscript first. You might think of the > booklet creation using the printing system kprinter > (http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet). > > > What are the advantages/disadvantages of each approach? > > Multivalent or the "bookbinder" program are the easiest to use and they > work on PDF files. However they aren't as flexible to use as the psutils > way (using pstops). But for simple booklets they work well. > > /Peter > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20080909/0da720c3/attachment.htm>
