hi doc, 1. creating a pdf and printing it is a sensible workflow.
2. you seem to have prooblems with your printer configuration 3. or you have chosen the wrong paper format. ... or maybe scribus has a problem. but if you don't show up what kind of scribus document you ended up with, it's very hard to understand what went wrong... ciao a.l.e p.s.: i've never had placement issues with multiple duplicate... > Gregory Pittman said the following at 09/19/2009 06:46 AM : > > > An alternative plan is to use Multiple Duplicate. > > > > First, make an individual frame and create the card contents. This > > could also include superimposed graphics, which you then group. > > > > Next, use Multiple Duplicate to copy the required number of times > > for columns. Versions 1.3.5+ allow you to either specify an offset > > from the prior copy or a gap between frames/groups. > > > > Finally, select the row of frames/groups you have just made and > > again Multiple Duplicate down the page for the required number of > > rows on your sheet. Obviously, you can do rows first, columns > > second if you wish. > > I have just spent an hour trying to build a page of Avery 8160 mailing > labels... and have given up :-( > > Before I try to describe the problem(s) I experienced, I have to say > that with Publisher I simply created the label and sent it to the > printer, and it worked fine first time. > > That said, with Scribus, and the same printer, I simply could not get > the labels to line up properly, at least not with any rational values > for the location and separation of the labels. > > 8160 labels are 2.625" x 1". There are three labels to a row and ten > columns on a sheet of 8.5" x 11" paper. The upper left hand label by > measurement has a left border 0.125" from the left of the paper, and > a top border 0.500" from the top of the paper. > > So the first thing I did was to create a label entirely in a 2.625" x > 1" frame at (x, y) = (0.125, 0.500) on a letter-sized sheet. > > Just sending that to the printer resulted in an immediate problem: the > resultant label prints about 0.5" too low, and about 0.125" to the > left. I have no idea why. > > So I changed (x, y) to (0.250, 0.0). The first label then printed in > the right place (or at least a reasonable place), although I don't > understand at all why I needed to adjust the (x, y) values, nor how I > could have known what the right adjustment was without printing a > test label. > > By measurement, the separation between labels on the sheet > horizontally is 0.15625" (5/32"); vertically it is 0.00". > > If I put those values into "Multiple Duplicate", though , the > resulting printed labels do not register properly on the sheet... > labels drift leftward (with respect to the physical paper labels) as > one moves to the right on the sheet; they also drift upwards as on > goes down the sheet. > > It is doubtless true that by adjusting the "Multiple Duplicate" > values I could have ended up (eventually) with a whole sheet of > labels that register correctly on the paper. > > I do not understand why any of this is necessary, though. Maybe my > measurements are off, although I don't think they can be off by much. > > However, given that Publisher manages to do the right thing without > any fuss, I went back to that. > > Please note that I am not complaining; I am simply reporting my > experience as a na?f but not completely stupid user. It is perfectly > possible (indeed it seems likely) that the problems were a result of > operator error... but I did what seemed sensible to me, and ended up > completely confused as to why things weren't working the way I > expected. So some sort of precise, correct set of instructions to > help people like me might be really useful. Even better would be some > sort of macro that does all the "right stuff" (whatever the "right > stuff" is) so that the user can be pretty confident that labels (and > business cards) will print properly without the need for knowledge > that this user at least doesn't have. > > Doc > > PS To print, I had to export to PDF and then print the PDF. Printing > directly to the printer locked up the printer every time. I had never > tried printing directly from Scribus to a printer before. I have no > idea why it failed; no other application has trouble printing to the > printer (which is physically attached to a server machine). Maybe > being forced to go through the step of producing a PDF prior to > printing was the cause of some or all of the problems. >
