On 08/01/2010 12:35 PM, Jim Ford wrote: > To get the 'feel' of Scribus I decided to layout the centre pages of the > children's illustrated book my wife has produced. Scribus is nice to use > - much nicer for the purpose than Photoshop which I was previously using. > > I chose 'double sided layout' with the page dimension of a single page. > Scribus just showed the one page, with no option to continue onto the > facing page. I added a page and completed the layout, but when the > document came to be printed, two separate pages were printed, rather > than the two together which is what I wanted. > > I've had a trawl through the docs. and net, but can't find anything that > helps me. What should I have done, please ?
It's merely what double-sided layout means. I just means that the pages are placed side-by-side. It's really for considering something you might publish like a book, where you have right-side and left side pages. If you print from your local computer they will come out as individual pages, because that's what they are. The business of how these get physically printed on the paper for a book is called imposition. If you're using some commercial printer, they should be able to do this imposition for you and make sure the content ends up where it needs to be. The Double-Sided layout just allows you to see these side by side, so you can get the relationships right. Greg
