Thanks for the tip below. Having installed Adobe Reader it worked fine, even with a test PDF originally formatted as A4.
I'd still be interested to find out where the imposition tool in Scribus lives. Peter Nancarrow K.King wrote: > << > I use Scribus on a PClinuxOS system, and need to produce a brochure in > A5 size printed on A4. Reference to the Help documentation in my > installation, I find under the heading 'New In Scribus 1.3.5' the > following reference: > > 'There is a new imposition tool which allows you to create booklets. > This enables for example printing 2 pages of A5 on A4 paper.--> ' > > However, I haven't been able to find the tool. If it's there, could > somebody tell me where? > > Peter Nancarrow > >> > If you do not find it or get that working, an alternative option for you > maybe to create a PDF as an A5 size. > Then from Adobe Reader use the print "Page Scaling" option set to > "Booklet Printing". > If you were looking for the end result to be a PDF (as we have in the > past) then : > Depending on your printing settings you maybe able to print to PDF > directly? > If not you could take the Adobe Print option "Print to file" to create a > postscript file and then use the ps2pdf command to create a pdf > I know you are not on Windows, but we've also taken the above approach > but used PDFCreator as the final print stage. > We've used both ways and the PDF created was sufficient for our needs. > K. > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus >
