On Monday 04 October 2010 12:47:10 Keith Abraham wrote: > > My son, working with InDesign (not an amateur program in my opinion) > > tells me that it has imposition. > > > > But I agree that I am an amateur in many ways, who uses Bookbinder for > > the job. And so many with me, using scribus are amateurs. They want to > > make something nice that isn't possible with for instance OpenOffice.org. > > > > Joop > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > My apologies Joop. It was not my intention to be condescending. It's > just that all the people I know who have needed imposition have been > those who print the occasional booklet on their home printer. > > AFAIK Indesign has a plugin for imposition which has to be purchased > separately so I suppose one could infer from that that even Adobe > doesn't think imposition is a necessary function. > > But it does raise the question that as plugins are a such convenient way > of adding functionality to an application perhaps it's something that > should be built into Scribus. A future version perhaps? > > Keith >
One thing that could help in this discussion is distinguishing between imposition and booklet printing. The latter is certainly a feature that's worth implementing (if someone has the skills and the time), the former -- rather not. There's a reason for imposition software being *very* expensive. As for InDesign, there was/is a 3rd party plugin for booklet printing included in a default install (at least in CS2 and CS3), but no real imposition solution. Christoph -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20101004/ae47f45e/attachment.htm>
