Hi there, thank you for trying Scribus and sharing your progress.
Seems you are in the US. In Germany it works best, if you find a print-shop (why not online) first and then create your Scribus documents and then export your PDF. Print shops have guidelines for you (my print-shop for example needs 3mm bleeds all around for digital printing and they prefer PDF/X-4 but they can handle PDF/X-3 if you would be using an older version of Scribus; your print-shop will have different guidelines, mine are just examples) and resources for downloading like Colour Profiles for their different products (machine/paper combinations). Please do not hesitate to make a phone call to a print shop and tell them about your noobity. It is a problem that will go away with time. I keep reading that print shops prefer customers who ask and get it right(er) over customer who get rumours off the internet and submit files which need a lot of manual correction or several cycles of submit/proof. Mine are very helpful on the phone (for example when I try a product for the first time like stitch-binding, where their documentation is unclear (bleed for binding-side?)). hth Martin On 04.05.2017 16:06, Kevin Cole wrote: > Hi, > > So. My very first project with Scribus. Complete noob. > > Following the directions on > https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/How_to_make_business_cards I now have an > SLA and a PDF double-sided "virtual sheet", with 10 business cards on it. > There's a wide margin between the two columns but no margin between the > five rows. BTW, I think there's a typo in the page: I think Step 12 wants a > 4.0 inch horizontal shift, not a 3.5 inch one, since the 4.0 inch shift > puts the second card squarely within the guides set up at the beginning. > > So far, I'm not seeing anything I couldn't have done faster and more > accurately in another application, especially since I was creating cards > for multiple people. But, I'm willing to drink the Kool-Aid a bit longer, > as the strength, as I understand it, is in the quality of the final product. > > How do I now make the best use of the results, in order to get high quality > printed cards? Are there vendors that take SLAs with card definitions that > don't have any spacing between the vertical cards, and print and cut them > nice and pretty? Or are these designed for me to go out and get special > stock paper and cut or tear along the dotted-line? And, since one of the > selling points of Scribus seems to be that it's better suited to producing > nice color when printed -- or so I understand, should I be looking at > particular vendors? Export the PDF with the Color Output intended for > "Printer"?? Increase the DPI to 1200? > > Thanks. > -- ZASKE Martin responsable G?G? BP 50 - Bassila - B?nin tel G?G? 66.66.11.11 tel pers 97.44.62.95
