On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 9:53 PM, Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/2010 01:14 PM, Victor Papp wrote: > >> Hi >> >> IMHO its a wrong approach to use multiple duplicates with business cards. >> I always set the page size to 9x5cm (with bleeds if needed). >> And I do compose the card in this paper size. >> Then, i print to postscript and do imposition using pstops and convert to >> pdf with ghostscript for printing. >> I tried the multiple duplicate once, but with complicated cards (several >> layers of bg images, etc) it leads to very big files with reduced >> performance. Also, as mentioned above you cannot use master pages and >> layers >> in this case - or you should multiple duplicate each layer separately. >> > > and the difficulty with that is....? > The difficulty is: to multiple copy 12 cards per A4 page when you are using layers and master pages means: 1. copying all layers separately 2. copying master page separately. 3. if you need to change something in the card, you should delete all copies and restart. Instead the above, I use the following script with the ps file produced by scribus: call pstops -w50mm -h90mm "1:0R(0,1w)" 1.ps _11.ps call pstops -w90mm -h50mm "12:0+0(1w,0)+0(2w,0)+0(0,1h)+0(1w,1h)+0(2w,1h)+0(0,2h)+0(1w,2h)+0(2w,2h)+0(0,3h)+0(1w,3h)+0(2w,3h)+" _11.ps _1.ps call pstops -w270mm -h200mm "1:0L(205mm,13mm)" _1.ps _2.ps call ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 -dAutoRotatePages#/None -dPDFSETTINGS#/prepress _ 2.ps ready-imposed-cards.pdf This script puts 12 cards per an A4 landscape page. I saved the script and am reusing it anytime for any business card (where 1.ps is source file the script uses). Victor. > I am not hearing a simple procedure from you as an alternative. > > This can all be done inside of Scribus, unless you really want to use 3, 4, > or 5 separate programs. > > > Greg > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -- Victor Papp skype: victorpapp Tel. +38 050 5 141 142 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101117/73d93ccc/attachment.htm>
