[Scribus] imposition

[Peter Linnell]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 10:26 am, francesco fantoni wrote:
> i do use scribus for making small booklets of my works.
> I produce a pdf with Scribus, then turn it to postscript with "pdftops"
> and impose it with Dov Grobgeld's "impose+" and "psbl" script.
> (it's here: http://imagic.weizmann.ac.il/~dov/freesw/impose+ )
> It works fine. For what i can understand it's a set of nice scripts in
> perl that can make signatures and impose the results analizing the
> actual bounding box of the pdf. It allows you even to have a bit of
> control over gutter and margins, choose the size of the paper and the
> maximum number of pages per signature.
> I know "imposition" is much more than that, but i find it is a nice
> script to start with, and for simple saddle-stitched booklets it works
> absolutely well (IMHO). Maybe, being simple perl scripts released under
> the GPL, they could be used directly in scribus somehow, or can be held
> as a reference for someone that wants to defy the task of writing an
> imposition plugin.
> From my non-professional point of view, they do all i need for now.
> regards
> francesco


I can second Francescos remarks and added a link to this site in December. 
There are now 73 links on the www.scribus.net site.  If there are other 
worthwhile, you can submit them by clicking the add link button.

Peter