[Scribus] imposition

[Riku Leino Tsoots]

> START OF COMMANDLINE
> according to my reading of the documentation:  java -classpath
> Multivalent20040415.jar tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x2 -verbose -paper 22x17
> in -layout '20r,1l,21r,40l,12r,9l,29r,32l,18r,3l,23r,38l,16r,5l,25r,36l,10r,11l,31r,30l,2r,19l,39r,22l,6r,15l,35r,26l,4r,17l,37r,24l,13t,28l,8l,44l,27r,14l,34r,7l'
> black.pdf
> END OF COMMANDLINE
> 
> Sadly, it crashes with the highly informative error message "null". 
> Yes, that's all it says.  It's not just the PDF from Scribus that says
> "null"; I've tried it with other pdf's and shorter commandlines and
> everything that I can think of.  "null".

Did this with your command using A5s to A2s.
http://koti.welho.com/rleino/test.pdf is my original pdf
and http://koti.welho.com/rleino/test-up.pdf is the one created by 
Multivalent with the commands below:

export CLASSPATH=/home/tsoots/Multivalent.jar

java tool.pdf.Impose -dim 2x2 -verbose -paper A2 in -layout
20r,1l,21r,40l,12r,9l,29r,32l,18r,3l,23r,38l,16r,5l,25r,36l,10r,11l,31r,30l,
2r,19l,39r,22l,6r,15l,35r,26l,4r,17l,37r,24l,13t,28l,8l,44l,27r,14l,34r,7l
test.pdf

With big pdf files I noticed it had some problems with memory. You could
try if this helps:

java -Xmx256M -classpath Multi...

I'm using Sun's jre 1.5 (or 5.0 however it should be called)