[Scribus] Booklet Printing

[Wesley Allen]

Peter Nermander wrote:

>>Yah, I just tried to take a tri-fold doc and use multivalent to impose
>>it - it doesn't do three pages on one sheet!!
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>Are you sure? What command line did you use? I haven't tried, but something like
>too.pdf.Impose -dim 3x1 -layout 1,2,3
>should work (page order might have to be changed in the -layout switch).
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I thought I tried that, I'll do it again...

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>>http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/2003-October/002438.html
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>Ok, that might work for simple 2-up layouts, but that's the easiest imposition
>to do. For almost all other impositions you have to rotate the pages.
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>Byt the layer approach was something I had not thought of.
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>>At the time, the psutils tools were not considered the best solution. I haven't
>>seen that expressed lately, so I don't know if they've become easier to use
>>correctly for print output.
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>I haven't used psutils for creating PDFs, so I can't tell. But if I understood
>things right the problem was that ps2pdf did not embed fonst (but as far as I
>know psutils keeps all embedded fonts, so another tool to make a pdf from the ps
>would solve that problem.
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>But psutils are NOT easy to use (that's why I wrote a script to create the
>command lines for the impositions:-).
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>/Peter
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