John Jason Jordan schrieb: > On Mon, 25 Jun 2007 03:06:56 -0700 (PDT) > avox <avox at arcor.de> dijo: > >> Julian Robbins wrote: >>> Understandably, people keep asking about imposition tools in linux, and >>> PDFTK and multivalent always get mentioned. >>> >>> I found the tool 'laidout' the other day. I'm not an expert in this >>> whatsoever, but wondered why this is never mentioned? It is GUI driven >>> which might help some people who are not so happy with cmd line perhaps. >>> It a bit quirky looking, but is another tool that might help .. > >> What, you expect us to advertise for our competition? ;-) >> No, seriously, I only heard about laidout a few weeks. It looks very >> interesting. >> Does anyone have experience with using laidout for imposition? >> >>> Also, there IS the beginnings of a useful PDF GUI Editor in Linux - >>> called PDF Editor http://pdfedit.petricek.net >> That one is mentioned once in a while in our #irc channel and needs >> watching. > > Where did y'all find laidout? > > The documentation for multivalent seems to indicate that it > can burst a multi-page PDF into individual pages. These can then be > laid out in Scribus, twice on each side if desired. So I can use > Scribus the same way I used to use InDesign to do the two-up layout > that I need. Except that for InDesign there is a script that does it > automatically. It should be scriptable in Scribus as well, except that > I'm not a programmer so I don't know how to do it. > > Meantime, I'd like to try laidout, if I can find it. It's not in > Synaptic, and I have just about every repository enabled. Google is your friend here, just look at: http://www.laidout.org/
Franz Schmid
