I messed around a little more with Scribus, and I downloaded the help file (what a huge difference that makes! Can't believe I tried messing around without a help file!). Also downloaded a couple templates and tried fiddling with them. I think I understand the part about writing the book in chapters, and using a different file for each chapter. And that sounds like a good way to go if I self-publish and want to signature bind! (but that might be too advanced for me).
So - right now I used 8.5x11 in portrait mode. I used pstops and other utils to shrink it 70%, and go two pages per side or sheet, four pages per physical sheet. It works okay, and my table-of-contents and index came out fine. But - now I want to move it to Scribus. I want to include pictures. I want to make a print-ready PDF. If I want to print 5.5x8.5, is that the paper-size I would select in Scribus? Or would I stick to 8.5x11 and use pstops and other utils to shrink and paginate? Maybe I'm just confusing myself. Anyway - any pointers towards self-publishing a book using 8.5x11, a good quality laser printer and a bone for folding and a press for glueing and attaching the cover? I checked out "No Media Kings", and am thinking of going that route. Also, is there a book-store book I can get on Scribus? Or has delivery on the current book been fixed?
