[scribus] Double sided layout A4

[Victor Papp]

Hi.

Both psutils, pdftk and ghostscript are available for FREE to download under GPL for windows.
Yes, I know about acrobat, - i have used it earlier frequently.
But the command line tools give you much more POWER.
If you have money you do not know where to spend, pls buy acrobat professional, Quite imposing plus, and do the imposition job in a GUI manually.

But it is:
a. NOT free.
b. NOT effective.
c. hard to automate for repeating jobs.

Your A5 booklet is a simple case.
More sophisticated jobs can be automated via command line tools that are platform independent - i am using them under windows and linux with success.

But it is your decision -  which way to go.

Victor.

P.S. To generate postscript select File/Print/TO FILE

----- Original Message -----
From: William Kenny [mailto:kennywilliamm at gmail.com]
To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
Sent: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 13:21:13 +0200
Subject: Re: [scribus] Double sided layout A4

Thanks for reply Victor, but I'm stumped again. I should have mentioned I'm
using Scribus on Windows but I can install it on Ubuntu and work from there.

I do not seem to have the option to export the SLA doc to a PS doc. I can
export individual pages to EPS format - am I missing something.

On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 7:12 PM, Victor Papp <victor at vpapp.com> wrote:

> No acrobat needed here, there is a simpler solution.
> While it considered as a professional tool, we have almost everything that
> it allows for free with GPL.
>
> a.l.e. is right: ALWAYS use the format of final page: if you are making an
> A5  booklet, don't setup A4 document size in scribus.
> Setup it as A5.
> Then generate PS. (say a5.ps)
> and in seconds, using pstops, psbook, and ps2pdf from command line you can
> impose pages for booklet.
> Example for your case:
>
> make booklet with 2 commands:
>
> psbook a5.ps | psnup -l -Pa5 -pa4 -2 > book.ps
> ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE#a4 book.ps book.pdf
>
> 1st line reorders pages, adding empty ones and puts two a5 pages on one a4
> 2nd converts to pdf
>
> Easy enough?
> 2 commands and you are done. And you work with single pages in
> scribus/anything.
>
> P.S. I am also using pdftk to add marks and custom color bars for offset
> printing - and all from command line or scripts.
>
> Victor.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: a.l.e [mailto:ale.comp_06 at xox.ch]
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Sent: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:49:26 +0200
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Double sided layout A4
>
> hi william,
>
> > I have used page setup to be A4, double-sided, landscape with
> > intention of folding the printed  pages into a brochure style. Thus I
> > require that right-hand side of first A4 page is page 1 and left hand
> > side is page 4. If I use auto-numbering, Scribus marks both sides as
> > page 1.
> >
> > How do I set this up properly (to use A5 would make printing a
> > nightmare for more than one page).
>
> well, i think the best solution is to set it up in a5 and then use an
> imposition (or acrobat) to create a booklet which will be a4...
>
>
> was i convincing enough?
>
>
> ciao
> a.l.e
>
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