Hi Mike. Well, I just finished up a 320 page 8x10 inch book in Scribus, 395 illustrations. Did 151 advance reviews copies through Bookmobile.com, they had no problems with my PDFs from Scribus. I do them one chapter at a time and assemble them with Acrobat. No distiller, no pre-flight, all Scribus for that. Scribus pre-flight and PDFs have been excellent here. I had to write/adapt a few scripts to make things go fast (insert photo, then run script to generate spacing box and caption box). A few irritating bugs, but most are now fixed with updates.
You're not nuts at all -- Scribus works fine for book projects, but I like no more than 30 pages per file. At 50 pp (a different scribus project I'm working on here) it gets pretty slow. DO think about bidding your job around --- LOTS of short-run presses would be interested. Out of here for now; I'm going over final Scribus PDFs for a 2,000 book run at Friesens, due tomorrow......contact me via email Mike if you have any specific questions : danbob (at) otherpower ((dot) com DAN FINK Buckville Publications LLC (powered by solar and wind, and by open source software) I am about to embark on my first book publishing project. And right now > it looks rather daunting for a first timer. > My hope it to take this website: http://EpicRoadTrips.us/ca2007 and make > it into a book. > There are around 800 images and comments for most. > My target finish date is 15Dec2008
