[scribus] Create an A6 booklet

[jujulj]

That looks easier! How can you specify the order of the page on the layout?
It seems that I can only set the number of pages per sides.
I 've got Evince version 2.22.2...

Thanks

On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 2:15 PM, TSH <tsh.gmane at miserableoldgit.me.uk> wrote:
> On Thu, 13 May 2010 13:16:14 +0200, jujulj wrote:
>
>> hi,
>>
>> I'd like to create a 4 pages A6 booklet. I would like to be able to
>> print 2 on a A4 sheet as follow
>>
>> on one side:
>>
>> 4 1
>> 4 1
>>
>> on the other side:
>>
>> 2 3
>> 2 3
>>
>> so that I'd just have to cut the sheet in the middle and fold each half
>> to get my 2 booklets.
>>
>> I'm very new to Scribus. What document should I create to do that? How
>> can I print it?
>>
>> Any help or pointer to tutorial for this specific task welcome!
>
> Hi Julien,
>
> I don't know if Scribus can do that directly - someone will probably be
> along soon to tell you if it can - but I use the output of my PDF viewer
> to do something similar.
>
> I use the Evince PDF viewer on a Linux system, so your options may be
> different, but I make a normal A4 size PDF from Scribus, open that with
> Evince, and then go File -> Print. On the 'Page Setup' tab, I can chose
> how many pages get printed per side of A4, the order they print in, the
> orientation of the paper, etc. Hit 'Print Preview' to check what the
> output will be. I can then print this directly to paper, or make another
> PDF of that output (Print To File in the 'General' tab), which makes it
> easy for repeated use or distribution.
>
>
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> Stewart H.
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