Hello Jonas, thank you very much for your support. Lets see if I am able to cut the page as per your explanation.
Great help, thanks! Uwe > Gesendet: Sonntag, 02. Februar 2020 um 17:56 Uhr > Von: "Jonas Bechtel" <[email protected]> > An: [email protected] > Betreff: Re: [scribus] export part of a page <- Crop pdf file with manually > modifying /MediaBox > > > > > On Sun, 2 Feb 2020 09:16:53 -0500 > Gregory Pittman <[email protected]> wrote with subject > "Re: [scribus] export part of a page": > > > On 2/2/20 1:02 AM, Uwe Saßnowski wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I like to export a part of a page only. From one page I like to > > > export 3 single pages (left, middle, right). Is it possible? Thanks > > > for your help! > > > > > > > Hi Uwe, > > > > I presume you're talking about 3-fold pages and Scribus 1.4.x, since > > this feature no longer exists in the 1.5.x series. Although it may > > sound like a 3-fold page is a single page divided into 3 parts, these > > are actually 3 individual pages that happen to be displayed > > side-by-side. If you printed them out on your own printer they would > > print out as individual pages. When you export, just select the > > appropriate page under Export Range in the export dialog, 1 for left, > > 2 for middle, 3 for right. > > > > Greg > > > > > I received a PM from TO with a big pdf file. > > For me it looks rather like one big page, and the Creator attribute > in pdf file hints for Scribus 1.5.5 > > > So the best way depends on what you need when: If the final print shop > needs split pages, I recommend to rearrange document in scribus. > > If you just want to print it out once with you printer, I can suggest > following. Don't worry, it looks complicated, but actually it just > changes one number: > > > 1. Copy your file to Brochure_M.pdf and Brochure_R.pdf > (I will just make an example for Brochure_M.pdf) > > > 2. Download Notepad++ or ProgrammersNotepad for your Windows. > (You can make it with pre-installed Notepad but it will all be in one > line and won't make fun.) > > > 3. Open Brochure_M.pdf with *Notepad* > WARNING: If you alter a pdf file, each information segment (= "obj") > must keep it's length. > > > 4. Got to the first place where /MediaBox appears. There's the original > line: > > /MediaBox [0 0 1723.78205 898.90016] > > > 5. Replace the first value "0" with "283.5" AND cut the last number > "898.90016" to the short number "898.9" > > /MediaBox [283.5 0 1723.78205 898.9] > > Explanation: in the first step you have made the line four bytes longer > ("8", "3", ".", "5"), in the second step you have made it four bytes > shorter again ("0", "0", "1", "6") > > > 6. Repeat this for the second page (there's a second /MediaBox in > your pdf, I mean this one) > > > 7. Press "Save" button. My pdf program then shows a cut version of > Brochure_M.pdf Maybe you also have to change the other Boxes, maybe > "ArtBox"? > > > 8. How did I get to "283.5"? > 100 mm is 3.93701 Inch (says my search engine) > 1 Inch is 72 pdf-units > -> 100 mm = 3.93701 * 72 pdf-units = 283.46472 pdf-units > > I know that 100 mm is not what you need but 100mm is easily > re-calculated. > > > > > Full result looks like that: > 274 0 obj > << > /Type /Page > /Parent 3 0 R > /MediaBox [283.5 0 1723.78205 898.9] > /BleedBox [20.00126 20.00126 1703.78079 878.89890] > /CropBox [0 0 1723.78205 898.90016] > /TrimBox [28.50520 28.50520 1695.27685 870.39496] > /ArtBox [28.50520 28.50520 1695.27685 870.39496] > /Rotate 0 > /Contents 272 0 R > /Group 273 0 R > >> > endobj > > > 9. Now you have to do this with actual numbers, fitting for M and R > segment, and the M file has to be cropped to ~40cm before exporting, as > you already did for L side. > > > > For very limited time I upload Brochure_M.pdf to > http://jbechtel.de/site/dist/FLINDS/ > > md5sum (original and new:) > > ba4ed9ee053cee8495e93aaed1508499 Brochure.pdf > 53215b30f19608faa30657be0396ec66 Brochure_M.pdf > > > > Best Regards > Jonas > > > > > > > ___ > Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] > Edit your options or unsubscribe: > http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus > See also: > http://wiki.scribus.net > http://forums.scribus.net > ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
