[scribus] 2 up double sided

["Sveinn í Felli (IMAP)"]

Hi;
just a thought or two:

Mr. Beast wrote:
> Thanks everyone for all the help, links, and info. I was hoping I had 
> just missed checking a box or something like that. I'm more of a user 
> than a geek, so I will probably just end up imposing the pages by hand. 

It's already been mentioned that imposition is most often a 
part of the printing process, not the DTP. Most professional 
printers I know of want to do it themselves, arguably 
because they're in charge of final tuning of the machinery.
Still, for proofing and small volumes the DTP user may want 
to do it on smaller printers.
That's where a good printer driver comes in handy. 
Personally I loved the Corel8 driver interface which 
permitted all kinds of manipulation on the output and 
supported most printers known to mankind (that was 
Win95-2000 - ehhmm, meaning last century). Normal "plain 
vanilla" printer drivers usually only permit simple 
operations like print order, even/odd pages, fit to page and 
sometimes booklet printing.
Wether your OS is Linux, Mac or Win, don't assume that the 
best driver for your printer is the one provided by the 
manufacturer or the OS, a lot of digging/tweaking may be 
necessary. On my Linux systems I use CUPS drivers most of 
the time, but for really important proofs I use the 
TurboPrint commercial solution.

> It's crude, but it is a level of technology I understand. The notion of 
> downloading and running additional pieces of software on top of learning 
> Scribus is just a little bit too scary right now. 

Using Synaptic or Smart Package Managers can't be that 
scary, at least compared to surfing all kinds of shareware 
sites full of malware/adware junk. And you have regular 
patches/updates from the repositories, if they're correctly 
set up.

Once I am a little
> more comfortable with Scribus itself I will try downloading and running 
> additional software to impose the pages. Thanks again for your time and 
> help.
> Cheers,
> B

I'm too looking forward to see the Scribus imposition plugin 
in action, first drafts were really promising.

Best regards

Sveinn í Felli