--- On Wed, 4/21/10, Bruce McIntyre <ooga at shaw.ca> wrote:
> From: Bruce McIntyre <ooga at shaw.ca> > Subject: [scribus] Taking the plunge with Scribus! > To: scribus at lists.scribus.info > Received: Wednesday, April 21, 2010, 4:41 PM > Hello, Scribus gurus: > Hi All, I read Bruce's report with great interest.? I too am tasked with producing a 12 page newsletter in two formats, for e-mailing and for printing at the local copy/print shop.? Like Bruce, I use legal paper folded in half, so each page is 7 inches wide and 8.5 inches high, - and I get two pages side by side on a legal sheet in landscape mode. I find it convenient to produce the 12 pages individually and then export to pdf.? Once I have 12 pdf files, I combine them into one master pdf? with kpdftool.? This part of the process works fine. However, the print shop, I am dealing with, prefers for me to do the imposition, and I have been giving them separate pdf files for pages 12-1, 2-11, 10-3 and so forth.? This too works OK, but I would like to avoid the extra work of re-arranging the pages. > 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. In the Adobe reader there is a provision for booklet printing.? If I select that, input the pdf file with the pages ordered in sequence 1-2-3-4.. and set the paper size to legal landscape, Adobe actually outputs two pages per sheet, properly impositioned, 12-1, 2-11 and so on. With the exception of left and right margins being wrong, it works on my own printer.? I am wondering, is there a good reason why the print shop can not do this and make the margins come out right?? I have set the margins to 10 mm all around, but obviously my own printer requires something else.? Do I need to get specific values for the equipment the print shop uses? Or can they override my margin settings? Suggestions and comments greatly appreciated. I use version 1.3.6 on Mandriva 1020 Power Pack. Cheers Ole
