I have successfully used scribus to make postcards and it's truly fine compared to attempting to get results with kword or abiword. Thanks for all the development and documentation efforts. I will volunteer some documentation as I get scribus learned.
About orientation of pdf files and CUPS printing: CUPS has a way to change from landscape to portrait orientation of a USLetter or A4 sized sheet while printing. When outputtiing from scribus to pdf, I found no option to convert the orientation from landscape to portrait. Is there a way to change a pdf page from landscape, (The text runs the direction of the long edge of the paper) to create a pdf that is portrait oriented, and can be printed from the command line with CUPS default setting of portrait orientation? That would be valuable for me, especially when a long time has passed between printing a document and I want more copies fast. If CUPS settings are still required, I could put them in a shell script that prints the pdf. How about python scripts for printing from scribus? Has anyone made examples? Is there a way to run CUPS command line interface like: lp -d okipage14e filename.pdf and add some option that switches the printer mode to landscape? I have not found that in CUPS documentation, and the printer configurations do not imply any function like that -- may need to be done outside of CUPS. Another question: On the create pdf-file general tab menu, binding has choices left and right, but not none. For my uses, I will want to make margins of some documents allow as much printable area as my specific printer will do. In that case, how would I create a pdf that is ready to print again with no settings required? Would I make a python script to use some of the internal code that the buttons and menus trigger? -- John Griessen
