[scribus] Building booklets

[Gregory Pittman]

Ole Madsen wrote:
>
> --- On Sun, 6/21/09, Nick Hasser <nick.hasser at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>   
>> From: Nick Hasser <nick.hasser at gmail.com>
>> Subject: Re: [scribus] Building booklets
>> To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net>
>> Date: Sunday, June 21, 2009, 11:29 AM
>> Ole Madsen wrote:
>>     
>>> Here is the problem, I have:  I produce a small
>>>       
>> newsletter, 12 pages.  I need the final product in two
>> formats:  A pdf file where all 12 pages appear in
>> sequence.  This is for e-mailing to some of our
>> members.
>>     
>>> Other members want a paper copy, and for this I
>>>       
>> prepare a file for the commercial printer.  Pages 12
>> and 1 one sheet, pages 2 and 11 on another sheet and so
>> forth.
>>     
>>> With Scribus 1.3.3.13 I could do this by some cutting
>>>       
>> and pasting, but with 1.3.5svn the cutting and pasting
>> process is not working properly.  (The style selctions
>> are left behind). 
>>     
>>> Is there an easier way of doing this?  Help and
>>>       
>> suggestions much appreciated, I am quite new at desktop
>> publishing.
>>
>> I do this every month for a newsletter I publish. After
>> preparing the
>> document in Scribus, I export to PDF for those that wish to
>> have a
>> digital copy. Then I use Multivalent [1] to do the
>> imposition. Here is
>> an example of my one-line imposition command for my 8 page
>> newsletter:
>>
>> java -cp ../Multivalent20060102.jar tool.pdf.Impose
>> -verbose -dim 2x1
>> -page 8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5 -paper 17x11in Newsletter.pdf
>>
>> I'm working with US paper sizes...change as appropriate.
>>
>> Nick
>>
>> [1]: http://multivalent.sourceforge.net/
>>
>>     
>
> Interesting. Thank you.  
>
> Am I right in assuming that the 8 pages in your newsletter are all in one file, like Page1-8.sla?  (As opposed to 8 separate files, Pg1.sla, Pg2.sla and so on.)
>
> If so, is there a way of combining several separate .sla files into one?
>   
yessir!
Go to Page > Import, where you find an SLA file and select the page you 
want to add to the current doc.

Greg