[Scribus] Imposition is a way to put Scribus in a strongpositionat the professional publishing game

[Craig Bradney]

On Tue, 2004-03-30 at 22:48, Mardigrafe - Louis Desjardins wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> 
> I think imposition is a very big chunk to swallow. Don't get me wrong : I don't say it is impossible! This is real prepress stuff. It leads into the court of trapping and ripping and imposing.
> 
> Imposition itself is customized to each job, each fold, each paper size, each press, each printing technology (web, offset, flexo, digital...), each type of finition and binding, number of pages, colors, and so on.
> 
> Also, it is a matter of dealing with all sorts of file type, and dealing with them well.
> 
> Imposition is a dragon!
> 
> Now, if you think it should be adressed by the Scribus Team, go ahead!
> 
> I do think it is a different (but related) project. A plug-in? A stand-alone app?
> 
> It all depends on how far you think it should go.
> 
> With all my admiration and deep respect!
> 
> Louis Desjardins

Hi Louis and all,

As you say its a large one to get done and get done right. I'm sure we
would welcome a group working on such features as a plugin to be
released within the main distribution package. Petr Vanek has released
info about how to create plugins on his site (www.yarpen.cz) and of
course there is the scripter, although I think this beast might be too
hard or too large to tackle within a script.

I think for Scribus itself, we (5) cant spend enough time on it to be
able to extend to imposition tasks at this point in time. There is a
mountain of work just for Scribus itself, let alone more plugins.

Its still the case that Franz is doing most of the coding, with the rest
of us putting in a decent amount of work in various areas (docs, bugs,
testing etc), but a lot less in the coding area (and dont forget the
other contributors too).

regards
Craig
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