On Wednesday 21 April 2010 19:41:26 Bruce McIntyre wrote: > Hello, Scribus gurus: > > > Here are some major concerns: > > 1) Booklet printing. I think I have this one licked, but it is going to > take some serious explaining to get your average copy-center worker to > follow the procedure in section 8.4.3 of the manual. It would be a lot > more convenient to incorporate booklet printing and imposition into the > PDF export section of Scribus. Under pressure, I made a silly decision > to make full legal size pages with the imposition done myself, so my > pages were 12-1, 2-11, 10-3, 4-9, 8-5, 6-7. This worked with the FedEx > Office people, but I found it time consuming to convert this to a normal > order on half-pages to post a web version (in fact, as I write the first > draft of this, I have one more to convert, two days after the end of the > tournament, with e-mails wondering where these issues are!). I think > with a little experimentation with my own printer I can write a document > detailing how to do the imposition within Acrobat Reader for the > Penticton people. But it would be a lot easier to have Scribus able to > make the printer-version as a PDF export option.
I use whatever tool works best. For booklet printing I create a ps file, then manipulate it with the PSutil package. For example I create a ps file for a set of hymns on 8.5 x 11 pages, then handle the imposition form this script. the end result is a file for printing on the fronts of 17 x 11 pages and a file for printing the backs of 17 x 11 pages. I call the script with the name of the ps file, less the ps suffix such as script1a easter ------------------------------------------------ psbook $1.ps $1b.ps echo 'psnup' psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter $1b.ps $1p.ps echo 'psselect' psselect -o $1p.ps $1o.ps psselect -e -r $1p.ps $1e.ps #lpr $1o.ps #echo 'switch paper' #read x #lpr $1e.ps #rm $1p.ps $1e.ps $1o.ps $1b.ps -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html http://www.scribd.com/doc/24676863/
