Using Acrobat Reader 8.0+ on Linux (and I think all other platforms), imposition for booklets is a null issue.
I do a 20-24 page newsletter monthly, but also release it in .pdf via the web. It is 8.5" x 11" booklet, but I impose it on 11" x 17" paper and saddle stitch (staple on the fold) w/ a long-throat stapler. I needed to make this easy, so I didn't have to produce 2 different versions. (My first issues were *VERY* time-consuming, as I copied page by page from the "master" to "tabloid" .sla file). What I do is: - Export a normal, single-page view .pdf. - Open it in Acrobat - Under Linux I have to tell the printer driver to use the Tabloid page region (not necessary under Win or Mac [I think]) - Open the "Print" menu in Acrobat - Under "Page Handling", set the "Page Scaling" drop box to "Booklet Printing" - If you're using a non-duplex printer (like me), set Booklet Subset to "Front side only" or "Back side only" as appropriate. - You can choose a sheet, i.e., sheet 1 front is pages 20,1 and sheet 1 back is 2,19, etc... If I set my printer (LJ4 MV) to print 100 copies or so, and say print Front Side of all 5 or 6 sheets, then I do all the front sides w/o [much] manual handling, and then go and print the backs using Back Side, sheet "1 to 1", "2 to 2", etc. I haven't used Acrobat 9 on Linux, but I know they didn't remove the feature. The other way to impose sheets like this is to enter a string of page numbers in either the Scribus "Pages to output" or in Acrobat, i.e., 20,1,19,2,... [The pattern, if you have n pages, is pairs of (n-k,k+1) for k from 0 to (n-1)]. Or, interleave sequences counting down by one from n with counting up from 1, and stop when you meet in the middle.] There are other types of imposition that can be done - Acrobat does n up printing, but I have found some scaling issues. I'm not an expert on imposition for other uses, but for booklets, I've gotten it to work for me, and it's already implemented in a standard tool. I'm sorry - I'm pretty sure there are people on this list that knew this or told me in the first place, but I hope it might help someone out. Cheers, Phil -- "Nothing is too small to know, and nothing too big to attempt." --Sir William Cornelius Van Horne
