[scribus] Double sided layout A4

[William Kenny]

Hi Victor,

Many thanks - that does the trick. Now need to sort margins out.

Thanks again

On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Victor Papp <victor at vpapp.com> wrote:

> Hi William,
>
> No, not good.
> 1. Open SLA document
> 2. File/Print
> 3. Select "Print to file" where you select your printer you get a
> postscript file.
> You can check your postscript file under windows with gsview
> See http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/<http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/%7Eghost/gsview/>
>
> if you see4 pages there, use the psbook .... etc - it should work.
>
> Victor.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: William Kenny [mailto:kennywilliamm at gmail.com]
> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
> Sent: Sun, 4 Oct 2009 17:22:52 +0200
> Subject: Re: [scribus] Double sided layout A4
>
> Have made some progress but still getting some probs.
>
> I created a5 doc with 4 pages. Put a text box in each page and some text.
> Exported to pdf format. Opened pdf file in gnome and printed to file as a
> PS
> file.
>
> Used this PS file and Victor's psbook command. Reported that it wrote 4
> pages.
>
> However, when I used ps2pdf command, it generated  2 pages as expected but
> placed text only on right-hand side of page 1 and there was no text on the
> left of page 1 or on the second page.
>
> Any ideas, please?
>
> On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 2:05 PM, a.l.e <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> wrote:
>
> > buondì william,
> >
> > > Thanks for reply Victor, but I'm stumped again. I should have
> > > mentioned I'm using Scribus on Windows
> >
> > since you're already on a non free system, i guess that you should have
> > no problem with non free apps. have you tried if using the booklet
> > feature of acrobat reader (afaik it is still available for free also
> > for windows...) fits your needs? this *is* the easiest way to create a
> > booklet (ethically and technically not the best one, but certainly the
> > easiest one!)
> >
> > have you read the chapter on imposition in the scribus wiki? there are
> > tools which can also be installed on windows mentioned there.
> >
> > the ghostscript solution proposed by vector is one of the best currently
> > available, but it's not the one i would suggest to a beginner nor to a
> > windows user.
> >
> > have fun
> > a.l.e
> >
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