[Scribus] PDF version of psutils?

[Gregory Pittman]

Corn? Verbruggen wrote:
> On 1/10/07, *Clayborne Arevalo* <clayborne.arevalo at gmail.com 
> <mailto:clayborne.arevalo at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 1/10/07, Philipp Klaus Krause <pkk at spth.de
>     <mailto:pkk at spth.de>> wrote:
>     > Clayborne Arevalo wrote:
>     > > I'm looking for a pdf manipulation tool that runs on Unix or
>     GnuOS and
>     > > does what psutils does. In particular I'm looking for the
>     abilities to
>     > > select (psselect), sort in signature order (psbook) and impose the
>     > > pages on a large sheet of paper (psnup). Is there such a program?
>     > >
>     > > Preferably the program should be command-line or have
>     command-line
>     > > capabilities (so it can be scripted). I've looked into pdftk
>     and it
>     > > seems to be missing the key ability to impose multiple pages on a
>     > > single sheet.
>     >
>     > pdfjam? It contains pdfnup. How about pdftk + pdfjam?
>
>     pdfjam appears to be incapable of handling  large-sized paper
>     (e.g. a3).  Is there some magic option I need to pass to pdfjam
>     or my LaTeX installation?
>
> Hi Clayborne,
>
> I was wondering wether you ever found a solution to this while I'm
> currently trying to get 3 custom-sized pages onto 1 a3 sized paper using
> pdfnup. It does not work.
A workaround with Scribus could be to use pdftk to break (burst) the PDF 
into single-page PDFs, then import the single page PDFs into Scribus 
image frames. A modification of:
http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Automatic_import_of_images:_Versions_not_requiring_Tkinter
could do this in a scripted way.

Greg