On Mon, 11 Jun 2012 14:49:17 +0200 Kj? Hansi Glaz <kjo at a4nancy.net.eu.org> wrote:
> Hi Scribus users, > > I wrote a small utility that I use to produce boolkets with scribus : > Bookletimposer. 0.2 was released recently. > > Bookletimposer is an utility to achieve some basic imposition on PDF > documents, especially designed to work on booklets : > > - produce a booklet out of a linear document; > - produce a linear document out of a booklet; > - reduce a document to put many pages on every sheet. > > Bookletimposer is implemented as a commandline and GTK+ interface to > pdfimposer, a reusable python module built on top of pyPdf. > > It was tested on GNU/Linux althought it may work on any systems with > a Python interpreter. > > Bookletimposer and pdfimposer are both free software released under > the GNU General Public License, either version 3 or (at your option) > any later version. > > Downloads and more information are available at: > > http://kjo.herbesfolles.org/bookletimposer/ > > For Debian users, a package is also available in wheezy. > > Cheers, > > Kj? Hansi Glaz This is a very interesting approach. I have a more generalized method. First I produce or convert to a PS file. Then I run the file through s series of standard Postscript utilities. A typical linux script looks like this: ------------------------------------------------------------- psbook $1.ps $1b.ps echo 'psnup' psnup -2 -ptabloid -Pletter $1b.ps $1p.ps echo 'psselect' psselect -o $1p.ps $1o.ps psselect -e -r $1p.ps $1e.ps #lpr $1o.ps #echo 'switch paper' #read x #lpr $1e.ps #rm $1p.ps $1e.ps $1o.ps $1b.ps --------------------------------------------------- This particular script produces a booklet, letter size input on tabloid size paper. My printer doesn't duplex so I use two passes as shown. For a file named foo.ps the script is called thus: script1a foo FYI -- John Culleton Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html Police Procedural and Expose: "Death Wore Black" "Create Book Covers with Scribus" http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
