Hi Victor, Many thanks - that does the trick. Now need to sort margins out.
Thanks again On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Victor Papp <victor at vpapp.com> wrote: > Hi William, > > No, not good. > 1. Open SLA document > 2. File/Print > 3. Select "Print to file" where you select your printer you get a > postscript file. > You can check your postscript file under windows with gsview > See > http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/<http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/gsview/> > > if you see4 pages there, use the psbook .... etc - it should work. > > Victor. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: William Kenny [mailto:kennywilliamm at gmail.com] > To: scribus at lists.scribus.info > Sent: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:22:52 +0200 > Subject: Re: [scribus] Double sided layout A4 > > Have made some progress but still getting some probs. > > I created a5 doc with 4 pages. Put a text box in each page and some text. > Exported to pdf format. Opened pdf file in gnome and printed to file as a > PS > file. > > Used this PS file and Victor's psbook command. Reported that it wrote 4 > pages. > > However, when I used ps2pdf command, it generated 2 pages as expected but > placed text only on right-hand side of page 1 and there was no text on the > left of page 1 or on the second page. > > Any ideas, please? > > On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:05 PM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote: > > > buond? william, > > > > > Thanks for reply Victor, but I'm stumped again. I should have > > > mentioned I'm using Scribus on Windows > > > > since you're already on a non free system, i guess that you should have > > no problem with non free apps. have you tried if using the booklet > > feature of acrobat reader (afaik it is still available for free also > > for windows...) fits your needs? this *is* the easiest way to create a > > booklet (ethically and technically not the best one, but certainly the > > easiest one!) > > > > have you read the chapter on imposition in the scribus wiki? there are > > tools which can also be installed on windows mentioned there. > > > > the ghostscript solution proposed by vector is one of the best currently > > available, but it's not the one i would suggest to a beginner nor to a > > windows user. > > > > have fun > > a.l.e > > > > _______________________________________________ > > scribus mailing list > > scribus at lists.scribus.info > > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20091004/004272f1/attachment.htm > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20091004/28e9261f/attachment.htm>
