[scribus] single folded brochure format (?)

[Gregory Pittman]

On 10/23/2010 02:28 PM, John Culleton wrote:
> On Saturday 23 October 2010 07:52:01 Peter Nermander wrote:
>>> In this imperfect world my solution is one, two, three.
>>> 1. pdf2ps (or save as ps)
>>> 2. run my script
>>> 3. ps2pdf
>>
>> But when you convert a PDF to postscript you lose a lot of it's
>> features.
>>
>> That's why I don't want to involve plain postscript anywhere in my
>> workflow.
>>
>> I feel it's a bit like converting images from JPEG to GIF because
>> the tools can't handle JPEG...
>>
>> /Peter
>>
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>
> What features would you lose? PDF is basically PostScript without all
> the programmability.
>
> Do you gain them back when you convert the other way, ps2pdf?
> I just converted a file from pdf to ps and then from ps to pdf again.
> The second pdf file was only slightly smaller than the original.
> PS and PDF are a lot closer related than JPEG and Gif.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm#Limitations

Greg