On Monday 01 November 2010 07:27:08 Peter Nermander wrote: > > One of the differences between MSWin philosophy and Linux > > philosophy is that Linux, really a clone of Unix, depends > > heavily on pipelines where a pipeline connects several > > independent programs by a script. The above script is an example > > of this. Windows users can do the same, > > Your script does not contain a single pipe from what I can see, it > uses temporary intermediate files:) > > And I really think you should have a look at some of the PDF tools > that are linked from the wiki page on imposition tools. For booklet > imposition many of them are more than sufficient to replace > psutils-based script. I have used both Multivalent Impose as well > as Bookbinder, but I'd say jPDF Tweak looked very promising (what > I missed at a quick try was a way to save and reuse your own > impositions). > > > except that the bat file facility in Windows won't take > > parameters in the same way that the above bash script does. So > > the names of the files would have to be written in the bat file > > explicitly. > > No, that is wrong. BAT-files can take arguments too. > > http://www.microsoft.com/resources/documentation/windows/xp/all/pro > ddocs/en-us/percent.mspx?mfr=true > > /Peter > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus Thanks for the correction on bat files. I haven't used MSDOS much in the last two decades. My main point is that not everything needs to be loaded into Scribus. For example I never print from Scribus. I create a PDF and print that instead from Adobe Acrobat Reader. If I need to use Gimp on an image I do that in Gimp as a separate step. And if I need to do imposition I do that external to Scribus, using simple tools that are known to work. Perhaps my work habits are tempered by my mainframe background, where using intermediate files was a common, indeed a necessary practice. If things go wrong one can examine the intermediate files to see which step caused the problem. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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