On 08/25/2010 03:04 PM, Gregory Pittman wrote: > On 08/25/2010 02:14 AM, Peter Palmreuther wrote: >> On 08/24/2010 11:13pm, Gregory Pittman wrote: >>> On 08/24/2010 04:49 PM, Peter Palmreuther wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> In "Save as PDF" dialog I configure "Export Range" to "Choose Pages: 20, >>>> 1, 2, >>>> 19, ...". >>>> >>>> But no matter what PDF Compatibility level I choose, pages are exported "in >>>> order", i.e. "1, 2, 3, ..., 20". My final target is PDF/X-3, but it doesn't >>>> work with 1.3-1.5 either. >>>> [...] >>> The way to make this work for you is to do this "poor man's imposition" in >>> Adobe Reader -- I know it works because I've done it. >> >> Thanks. But unfortunately I'm not the person "really printing", so I can't >> make use of Adobe Readers capabilities. >> >>> Otherwise there are some imposition solutions on the wiki. >>> >>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_impositions_with_pstops >>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_pdf_impositions_with_pdfpages_and_pdfjam >>> >> >> Thanks for pointing this out. Hadn't found the pages about pdfjam. This >> helped! pstops messed things up; As I've written it created virtually useless >> (PDF) results. > > We also like to point out that if the "really printing" person is a commercial > printer, they should be able to handle the imposition for you, and in fact may > be more comfortable with that so they don't have to worry about mistakes you > may have made doing it yourself.
Thanks for this clarification. In fact the "really printing" person is not a commercial printer. It's just somebody with a good printer and a big copier :-) So relying on this person to do the imposition correctly was a little to risky for me :-) -- Best regards, Peter
