[scribus] Making a booklet with Scribus

[Owen]

On Thu, 31 Jul 2008 08:25:58 -0700 (PDT)
Murray Strome <wmstrome at yahoo.com> wrote:

> This has probably been answered many times before, but I am very new
> to Scribus, and have never used other publishing tools (e.g. MS
> Publisher).
> 
> I am told by Publisher users that it is very easy to create a
> multi-page booklet of the form with pages half the size of letter
> paper (8.5X11 in), with text flowing smoothly from one "page" to the
> next, presumably adding pages as you go. The result is a document
> which, when printed double-sided will result in pages that you just
> fold in the middle and staple or stitch.
> 
> I could not see how to do this in Scribus (in Publisher, someone
> showed me that there is an option to select "booklet" as the type of
> document).  I tried looking through the documentation and the
> Archives, but could not find anything that appeared appropriate.
> 
> I have found GREAT instructions to create a booklet from a PDF file
> for a document that is 8.5X11 Portrait (under LINUX), which works
> very well for me but I am not sure that it would be suitable for an
> office secretary using MS Windows:
> http://twopoint718.blogspot.com/2008/05/make-book.html
> 
> I tried following the Tutorial, but found it rather complicated and
> did not really address this issue, as far as I could tell.





Depending on your final needs, you might be better off using Open
Office. 

Search OOs help for "booklet printing"

Scribus can be a bit of an overkill, a case of the right tool for the
right job!
-- 

Owen