In the past, I've provided the printer with an imposed PDF document, I use a program called Imposer Pro which is a plugin for InDesign by Alap. This produces the imposed PDF file from my original InDesign file. I'm unsure if the printer has the facility to impose our pdf or indesign files as it's not something we've had to ask them to do before. I should ask them if they can do the imposing, if not, I'll have to try something else! I'm trying to go as much Linux and open source as possible.
Cheers! Welly www.scuz.info | welly at scuz.info -----Original Message----- From: Louis Desjardins [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: 25 August 2004 20:40 To: Welly Cc: scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de Subject: Re: [Scribus] imposing Welly a ?crit : > Hi all! > > New to the list, I'm currently running indesign under windows xp (boo! Hiss! > I hear you shout!), but I am planning on migrating over to Linux over the > next couple of weeks and a DTP program is essential for my work - I produce > a bi-monthly extreme sports publication. I understand that Scribus will > output PDF files, which is great. However when I send PDF files to the > printers, they require the PDF file to be imposed, which I'm sure everyone > is familiar with. How is this done, if at all, in Scribus? If not within > Scribus, what alternatives are there? Do you mean when you give your printer InDesign native files he can impose them? and not impose PDFs? By your website I see your magazine has a fair amount of pages : over 50 pages... Of course anything (or most anything) can be done the hard way ? somehow manually ? but printers normally rely on dedicated software to impose. (It is clearly a prepress task.) This software, unless being pretty much outdated, usually has the capabilities to impose PDFs... Maybe you can ask your printer again, or someone else at your printer?s premises... From what I know of Scribus, imposition is not yet available. We use Dynagram?s Dynastrip. But you?ll find this kind of software comes at a steep price. Sorry not to have a better answer. Someone else might take the relay! Louis > > Thanks! > > Welly > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
