[scribus] Re : making 11 by 17 page layout

[David Zaslavsky]

Hi Alison,

The Linux commands to do this (well, at least one way, maybe not the
only one) are called "psbook" and "psnup". I've never completely
figured out how to use them but I just did some experiments and it
seems like something like this should work:
 psbook inputfile.ps | psnup -Pletter -w11in -h17in -2 > outputfile.ps
where inputfile.ps and outputfile.ps are, respectively, the input and
output filenames.  (Of course, inputfile.ps should exist;
outputfile.ps should not, else it will be overwritten)

As the .ps extension suggests, the inputfile.ps should be in
Postscript format - I forget if Scribus generates Postscript but if
not, you can convert a PDF with
 pdf2ps inputfile.pdf outputfile.ps
and once you've done the imposition you can convert back with
 ps2pdf inputfile.ps outputfile.pdf
In fact you can chain them all together with
 pdf2ps fromscribus.pdf - | psbook |
    psnup -Pletter -w11in -h17in -2 | ps2pdf - toprinter.pdf
(put that all on one line, I only line-broke it to fit in the email)
Unfortunately it looks like some quality is lost in the PDF-Postscript
conversion :-( but I don't know any other way to do it on Linux.
Sometimes you can print to Postscript directly, e.g. on KDE with
kprinter.

If you don't have these programs, psbook and psnup, I *think*
they're in package psutils which you can install via aptitude.

:) David

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 6:08 PM, Alison Saylor <alison.saylor at gmail.com> wrote:
> yes, you are right, it is exactly what I need, but I know no one who
> knows Linux unfortunately.  Really want to learn myself but it's hard
> to figure out how to go about that.  Anyway, thanks
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 9:00 AM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
>> hi alison,
>>
>> i wonder if it's not time to look for some help from a graphist or a free
>> software geek around you...
>>
>> he or she could give you an interactive help and the right ideas to solve
>> this problem.
>>
>>
>> good luck!
>> a.l.e
>>
>>> Thank you, this sounds much easier than changing it in Scribus.  I was
>>> able to get the two pages side by side by selecting that option from
>>> view and then saving it like that.  but of course there were two black
>>> lines in each page.  I tried using the double page function in the
>>> toolbar but none of the icons did anything.  Do you know if this is
>>> because I only have the free version of Adobe for PDFs and not the
>>> paid version?  If I pay for a version will the toolbox work and make
>>> it present 17 by 11?  Do you know what version of Adobe for PDFs I
>>> need?  Thank you!
>>>
>>> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Jean Migisha <migisha_jean at yahoo.fr>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hi Alison,
>>>>
>>>> Your have an imposition problem.
>>>>
>>>> There is no imposition module in Scribus.
>>>>
>>>> Take a look at Adobe Reader (ver 8 or above), it integrate a basic
>>>> imposition module.
>>>> Create a PDF in scribus without changing anything.
>>>> In Reader print as booklet  (en livret in french) using your final format
>>>> (11" x 17" landscape) paper.
>>>> Don' forget to print pages 4 by 4.
>>>> So, if your newsletter have 16 pages:
>>>> Then print recto verso pages:
>>>> 1 - 2 ; 15 - 16
>>>> 3 - 4 ; 13 - 14
>>>> 5 - 6 ; 11 - 12
>>>> 7 - 8 ; 9 - 10
>>>>
>>>> --------------------------------------------------
>>>> De : "Alison Saylor" <alison.saylor at gmail.com>
>>>> Date : samedi 21 février 2009 8:17
>>>> À : "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
>>>> Objet : [scribus] making 11 by 17 page layout
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> Hello All!  I created a newsletter that my printer can't work with.  I
>>>>> created legal sized pages, 8 1/2 by 11, but want the actual sheets of
>>>>> paper to be 11 by 17, with two 8 1/2 by 11 pages on each side of each
>>>>> sheet, to be folded and stapled in the middle so it opens and reads
>>>>> like a, well, newsletter.  So I need to redo it on 11 by 17.  I can't
>>>>> figure out how to create an 11 by 17 sized page document.  I can get
>>>>> close to that by choosing ledger, portrait, but then the pages are not
>>>>> exactly 11 by 17 because you can't change what's on the right side of
>>>>> the decimal point.  And there's no margins in the middle to guide.   I
>>>>> also hope there's a way to import my pages from the first run through
>>>>> into this one without having to move each individual text and picture
>>>>> frame and then reposition them.  Thanks in advance for any
>>>>> suggestions!
>>>>>
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