[Scribus] producing page order in a pdf for A5 booklet

[Femke Snelting]

Hello Charlie,

Maybe this helps:

http://www.constant.irisnet.be/~constant/ospublish/?p=90

It is an extended version of the tutorial mentioned in this post, but
handles A5 pages as input, and does not assume A4.

Enjoy!

Femke


charlie young wrote:
> Thanks Calum,
> 
> I checked in on this - PSUTILS and Kprinter. I'm running on Windows so that
> rules out the latter and I don't have the computer savvyness to really make
> sense of the former. But if this is the extent of what's available, i guess
> it's time to start learning...
> 
> Charlie
> 
> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 18:20:36 +0100
> From: Calum Polwart <scribus at wittongilbert.free-online.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Scribus] producing page order in a pdf for A5 booklet
>       printing
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> Not within scribus its self. (Its in the road map)
> 
> There is a wiki article to help you do this using pdf tools once you've
> created the basic pdf
> 
> Calum
> 
> On Thu, 2006-06-22 at 11:01 +0100, charlie young wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I want to export a pdf booklet as A5 pages. I then want to be able to
>> print two pages per sheet of A4 paper. When printed I want to be able
>> to compile the pages as a booklet so that the A5 pages are in the
>> correct reading order.
>>
>> Currently, if i make page one my back page, and page two the front
>> cover (so that when printed onto a sheet of A4 they make the booklet
>> cover), the page printing order I put in the pdf generator for a 12
>> page document is thus:
>> 1,2,3,12,11,4,5,10,9,6,7,8.
>>
>> Is there a function in the generator which will automatically compile
>> the page order for a booklet?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Charlie
>>
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