[scribus] New Member

[john Culleton]

On Tue, 15 Jul 2014 17:05:35 +0200
Rolf-Werner Eilert <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de>
wrote:

> Hi Bob,
> 
> Recently, my father finished his biography
> which he wrote in a word processor and printed
> and collected the photos in several folders. I
> would like to make the whole thing up into
> several books using Scribus.
> 
> So I wonder if there are many photos in your
> book and if Scribus really handles 300 pages in
> one file. Many folks here say it's better to
> split it up. As my father's collection consists
> of time sections and folders anyway, it will be
> easy to make several books out of it, and I
> intend to make different styles according to
> epoque etc. But I would be interested what you
> would consider the max number of pages for a
> book.
> 
> Rolf
> 
> 
> Am 15.07.2014 16:40, schrieb
> bobparham at comcast.net:
> > William & Wena, I am living proof that no one
> > is too old to learn and use Scribus. I just
> > turned 87 years old and first downloaded
> > Scribus to use in writing a bookthree years
> > ago. I learned to use the program
> > sufficiently to write an autobiography of 300
> > pages which was completed recently. I have
> > sold 49 copies of this book which I print on
> > an ink jet printer and a caregiver binds the
> > books for me. Why have I elected to write,
> > print and bind at home? The reason I did this
> > was just to prove to myself that I could do
> > it in spite of my age and the fact that I am
> > in advanced stages of a form of Muscular
> > Distrophy.
> >
> > To the Scribus team, keep up the good work.
> >
> > Bob Parham
> >
> >
> >
> 
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It is possible to print a book of a thousand
pages or more. But when using scribus it makes
sense to create the book using files of 100 pages
or so. Then you can merge the pdf output of these
files using the free program pdftk.
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