Peter, For my specifics on what sort of brochure we're trying to create, let me add this:
It will be a legal sized piece of paper, and it will be in landscape orientation (14 inches from left to right). Y.A. Thanks, Peter. > > I had about 9 pages and I zoomed out and I now understand a bit of how > Scribus works. > > So if we are wanting to create one paper sheet, as a 3-fold brochure, with > writing on both sides of the paper, we need "6" in New > Document/Options/Number of Pages, correct? > > Thanks. > YA > > On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:18 PM, Peter N. wrote: > > > But the resulting New document doesn't look anything like a 3-fold >> > brochure. It looks just like a regular page. >> >> Scribus can be a bit confusing on this point. Scribus ALWAYS work with >> "single pages", the layout options like 3-fold only tell how the pages >> are shown together on the screen. It's a display option, not a layout >> option. If you add another five pages and zoom out so you see several >> pages you will see how it works. >> >> For most uses you should probably just create a 2-page landscape >> document and use guides to make it 3-fold. Because if you make a 6 >> page 3-fold document you will have to impose the pages for print. >> >> /Peter > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20120621/59998b0c/attachment.html>
