Ole Madsen wrote: > > --- On Sun, 6/21/09, Nick Hasser <nick.hasser at gmail.com> wrote: > > >> From: Nick Hasser <nick.hasser at gmail.com> >> Subject: Re: [scribus] Building booklets >> To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> >> Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 11:29 AM >> Ole Madsen wrote: >> >>> Here is the problem, I have: I produce a small >>> >> newsletter, 12 pages. I need the final product in two >> formats: A pdf file where all 12 pages appear in >> sequence. This is for e-mailing to some of our >> members. >> >>> Other members want a paper copy, and for this I >>> >> prepare a file for the commercial printer. Pages 12 >> and 1 one sheet, pages 2 and 11 on another sheet and so >> forth. >> >>> With Scribus 1.3.3.13 I could do this by some cutting >>> >> and pasting, but with 1.3.5svn the cutting and pasting >> process is not working properly. (The style selctions >> are left behind). >> >>> Is there an easier way of doing this? Help and >>> >> suggestions much appreciated, I am quite new at desktop >> publishing. >> >> I do this every month for a newsletter I publish. After >> preparing the >> document in Scribus, I export to PDF for those that wish to >> have a >> digital copy. Then I use Multivalent [1] to do the >> imposition. Here is >> an example of my one-line imposition command for my 8 page >> newsletter: >> >> java -cp ../Multivalent20060102.jar tool.pdf.Impose >> -verbose -dim 2x1 >> -page 8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5 -paper 17x11in Newsletter.pdf >> >> I'm working with US paper sizes...change as appropriate. >> >> Nick >> >> [1]: http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/ >> >> > > Interesting. Thank you. > > Am I right in assuming that the 8 pages in your newsletter are all in one > file, like Page1-8.sla? (As opposed to 8 separate files, Pg1.sla, Pg2.sla > and so on.) > > If so, is there a way of combining several separate .sla files into one? > yessir! Go to Page > Import, where you find an SLA file and select the page you want to add to the current doc.
Greg
