On 2/27/20 3:49 AM, Christoph Bartoschek wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to create a book with Scribus but are unsure about a good > setup. This is what I have: > > The two-side pages are 185mm x 230mm. I want to print them on DIN A4 > (210mm x 297mm) and the pages will later be cut by the bookbinder. There > should also be a 3mm bleed on all sides. > > The crop marks have the default length of 7mm. The width of a page would > now be: > > 185mm (page) + 2*3mm (bleed) + 2*7mm (crop marks) = 205mm. > > To get to the 210mm of DIN A4 I add an crop mark offset of 2.5mm. It seems > the offset cannot be set differently for the different sides of the page. > Thus to get to 297mm vertically I set the bleed on top and bottom to 24mm > resulting in: > > 230mm (page) + 2*24mm (bleed) + 2*7mm (crop marks) + 2*2.5mm (crop offset) > = 297mm > > Given this I wonder what the horizontal distance between the left and right > pages should be. I get input for the book from other people and they would > like to send me input that spans left and right. I see two major options > for the horizontal distance: > > 0mm: If I get a two page input which is 2*185mm + 2*3mm (bleed) = 376mm > then I can just put it at position (-3mm, -3mm) of the left page and I get > proper bleed for the left and right page even on the inner sides because > the contents of the other page are added to the bleed. However, If I only > want to completely fill one page (e.g the left one) then I see no good way > to add the picture with inner bleed such that it does not appear on the > also on the right page. Or is there an option that an element is only > considered for one page during export? > One might argue that an inner border does not need bleed at all, but I > would like to have one. > >> = 6mm: Now the inner bleed of one page does overlap with the page > contents of the other page. Properly positioning input on a single page > works fine. However, the two page inputs cause problems. If I just expand > them over the two pages then I loose some content in the middle. To avoid > this it seems that I have to add the content twice to the book, once for > the left and once for the right page, and then shift and crop them such > that each page shows the right content. This requires careful > calculations, especially if the input has to be scaled to fit. It's easy to > make mistakes. > > For me it seems as if I have to go with >= 6mm as this is cumbersome but > works. I am interested about what other people would choose in such a > situation. Or is there something that I do completely wrong?
I think perhaps the best thing is to discuss the issues with your printer, sending a test document with these bleeds and crop marks. There are situations where one might want an image on the inner part of a left page to spill over to the inner part of the adjacent right page. Greg ___ Scribus Mailing List: [email protected] Edit your options or unsubscribe: http://lists.scribus.net/mailman/listinfo/scribus See also: http://wiki.scribus.net http://forums.scribus.net
