John Jason Jordan wrote: > 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. > Keep in mind, this leads to the same problem we hear a lot about: Scribus will rasterize these single-page PDFs, so you will lose some resolution.
Greg
