Peter Nermander wrote: >>I want to print an A5 Folded Booklet. (i.e. A4 page fodled down to A5). >>Scribus doesn't inherintly support this and given that my printers seem >>to be fairly struggling with a pdf I thought it would be better if the >>pdf was pre-booklet formatted. >> >> > >There are two solutions. In the wiki you also find my way of doing impositions >with psutils. Psutils are MUCH more flexible that simple 2-up printing. You >have full control over placing the "page" on the "sheet". It does however take >a lot of "hand hacking". > >You can also look at Multivalent, and it's tool.PDF.impose function. I haven't >used it a lot so I'm not sure if it will let the pages bleed to the edges. > > I love multivalent - but I'm not sure about if it's set up for bleeding.
>I have been thinking about writing a script for scribus importing PDF pages >and placing the on the page much as my imposition scripts do. They can then be >manually adjusted after import to make it possible to for example replace an >image split over a fold with an image spread over the fold (replace two >imported pages with an image). Maybe it would even be possible to make the >imposition design by creating image frames in a template document and the >script would import pages from that template document and populate tha frames >with imported PDF pages. > >Anyone who know perl and python would probably be able to convert my scripts. > > Peter, why not just write a python script the pages of a scribus document itself, rather than messing with pdf imports? Wes >/Peter >_______________________________________________ >Scribus mailing list >Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de >http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > >
