[Scribus] easy way to create booklet?

[Zhang Weiwu]

Zhang Weiwu wrote:

> I'm pretty upset when I read the feature is not currently available 
> (will come on 1.3). What can I do now? I am making A5 size booklet 
> using A4 paper.
>
> 1) create publications in scribus by A5 size paper and make postsript, 
> I use some tool to join A5 pages to booklets. This is NG because some 
> articles need to cover two pages.
> 2) create publications in scribus by A4 as if it is each double page 
> opened in a booklet (hope my bad English is understandable). This is 
> okay for crosee-two-page articles but is there good tool I can use to 
> split pages and re-join them in the right order later?
>
> I hope method 2) could work, and if possible, can you show me the 
> command to do it (split A4 pages and join them back to A4 pages so 
> that printed out it is ready for a booklet)?

I found the answer / solution from an old post:
http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2003-September/002163.html