I use Scribus quite a bit for teaching--produce the teaching materials, and include pictures, etc. I normally don't link my text files (they are generally short anyway), and I use quite a few photos/drawings, etc. It seems to me that 15-20 pages is about the practical limit for the program right now, given the time it takes to load and draw the screen (Windows XP, 1 gig memory, 1.6Ghz processor). My current class is on the books of Daniel and Revelation, and the pdf's are now at 5 megs, for about 13 pages. Because I used more illustrations than normal, that seems to be about the practical limit, and for the next lesson I'll have to break things up. That said, I love Scribus. I have InDesign, which unfortunately is completely opaque to me, although I've produced a few marketing materials with it. I have to admit that my design talents really leave something to be desired, but I certainly enjoy the production process in Scribus. It's got just about everything I could imagine wanting.Steve B.
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Bruce Griffis <bruce.griffis at gmail.com>wrote: > I put together a list of recipes in OOo writer. I've exported to PDF > and used psnup, pstops and ps2pdf to print it out in shrink the text > 70%, flip it from portrait to landscape and do 2 pages per side, 4 > pages per sheet. The numbering for the Table of Contents and Index > comes out okay - and it works okay as a basic fold-in-half booklet. > However! I would like to do something a little better. I'd like to > incorporate images. I'd like to generate an e-book, or possibly a good > print-quality book. > > When putting this together, wuld I treat each chapter as a separate > file, then merge them? Would I do it as one file and just deal with > the length of time it takes to load (right now I'm at 124 pages). > Would I create a new text box for each recipe, to make it easier to > put images where I want them? I simply opened Scribus an d imported > text from my OOo Writer file, but that makes it hard to put images > where I want them - as I did all 124 pages as one huge text box. > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20091011/10667b6b/attachment.htm>
