Le 18/02/2014 20:45, john Culleton a ?crit : > I am trying my first real book interior in > Scribus, and the page count will exceed 128. > There will be text plus lots of black and white > illos. I will use 1.5.0. > So what is the preferred workflow: > 1. Type each chapter externally and import as text > into a set of linked pages. Then export the > chapter as pdf. > 2. Type each chapter using story editor. Then > export the chapter as pdf. > 3. Type the whole book in one document.
I use a mixture of 1 and 3, depending on the book. I type the text in external documents (libreoffice or googledocs) and import them as text (without style import) I do the layout then. With 1) i setup a script to merge the produced PDFs with pdftk when required. With 3) when the SLAs are ready and before producing the PDF, i merge the 10 to 20 SLAs in 3 or 4 big SLAs (Pages > Import) (entry and summaries, first part, second part, last part) I redo manualy all links (because #11110) and sometime i clean the duplicated and unused styles (#11814, #11420) but there should be no problem if the styles have the same definition in all merged parts. And then i produce the 3 or 4 PDFs that i send as is to the printer, without merging them further. > I am concerned about two things: speed/ease of > production and size of the ultimate pdf. It seems > to me that if I merge chapters using pdftk > then there will be a lot of repetition in the pdf > of fonts etc. Merging the PDFs is fully scriptable, fast and reliable, and less tricky than merging the SLAs, but i dont like keeping lots of SLAs. IMO, fonts are not that big compared to scribus produced PDFs. JLuc
