[Scribus] tri-fold brochure

[Susan Hogarth]

I think I had the same problem. While my settings within scibus were correct (letter) my printer configuration was still set to A4. Perhaps you are having the same issue?

Susan Hogarth
(sent from palm pilot)

Franky <liedekef at pandora.be> wrote:
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>BandiPat wrote:
>> Wesley T Allen wrote:
>> 
>>> Hi all,
>>>     Does anyone know the proper way to set up a document for a tri-fold
>>> brochure on US-Letter (8.5 x 11) paper?  Every time I try it doesn't
>>> work out the way I expect.  Any help would be most appreciated!
>>>
>>> Wes
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> 
>> 
>> Wes,
>> 
>> How about giving us a bit more info.  What are you wanting to do, what 
>> have you tried, what results are you needing, etc.  It should be doable, 
>> but before we start throwing out suggestions, knowing a few more details 
>> would be helpful.
>
>Well, I think he wants to create a page which can be folded in 3 equal 
>parts (like invoices you get, those in long small envelopes).
>I tried this also, and also experienced weird results:
>
>- printing directly from scribus scews too much to one side (landscape, 
>scewed to the right), while I have other documents (eg. from openoffice) 
>printing out just fine. The page on itself looks just fine though
>
>- creating a pdf from my nicely-divided-in-3-equal-parts page results in 
>a pdf that scews too much to the other side, cutting off on the left (or 
>the right, can't remember)
>
>==> this is not WYSIWYG behaviour. Maybe has something to do with the 
>landscape setting?
>
>Franky
>