Plinnell wrote: > On Saturday 21 October 2006 11:18, Philipp Klaus Krause wrote: > >> I want to create a document which logically consists of multiple >> pages, but has to be sent to the printer as four logical pages per >> pdf page. Would it make sense to create the logical pages first, >> export them as .pdf and then create another Scribus socument where >> four pages are placed on one with Anschnitt added? Is there a >> simpler solution? One without the quality loss (AFAIK Scribus >> converts .pdf to raster images)? >> >> Philipp >> > > Hi, > > It is far simpler to do the following: > > 1) Create logical pages as needed. > > 2) Create new doc with space for 4 logical pages per document. > > 3) Create a second layer in the new doc. > > 4) Go Page > Import > Import the logical pages. > > 5) After importing, select all > position the content > then move the > content to the first layer. Why ? This avoids object collision when > importing. > > This will a: avoid loss of precision with PDF and b: require far less > memory and time to do the final PDF export. > Perhaps we need more feedback from Phillipp, but I was thinking he wanted to shrink individual pages so that four of them fit on the final pdf. I don't see anyway to do that by importing pages.
Greg
