On Tuesday 28 February 2012 10:52:50 wena-parry at talktalk.net wrote: > I have two books (Gang Chen and John?s) on the subject of producing a > book cover and have failed to work out the document mathematics. That > is the size of the document to put the template on. > > The measurements on the template is 5.83? X 8.27? with a spine of .273 > for an A5 book. > I have worked out that the document needs to be double the 5.83 = > 11.660 + spine at .273 for the width of the document. > Making a total of 11.733. BUT THEY DON'T WORK. > > The height is according to the temple 8.27 but none of these gives me > the same size as the template that I have a Cover Template from LS. > That is no mistake, I have downloaded and made assure that it is right. > > Wena D. Parry >
I'm not sure what exactly the problem is, but here's just a tip: you can use arithmetics directly in Scribus. So, during the document creation process, set "Default Units" to "Inches (In)" (though you can even mix different units), and type: ? in "Width": 5.83+5.83+0.273 (which gives 11.933, not 11.733) ? in "Height": 8.27
