[scribus] How to print in different sizes

[ZASKE Martin]

Thank you everybody for your input and for all the fashion advice
concerning old-fashioned versus old etc.

I guess I would not mind getting a (paid) sabbatical and learning all
about hacking Postscript; but had rather hoped to find existing hidden
tools inside Scribus.



a.l.e had given the most specific idea on how to try within Scribus:

I had to read between the lines and had to learn that he meant to
"select all (over all layers)" and to "resize" by a bold-mouse move:

I tried, and basically my document became a mess. A few elements got
bigger and moved to their places. But anything text was no joy. And
snapping to my (print-shop prescribed) bleed-limits did either not work
or my mouse-skills for A0 page-size are just not snappy enough. I think
my mouse tried snapping to the page-edges rather to the bleed-edges but
since my screen is somewhat smaller than A0, I am not sure what happened.




I got more mails with ideas or even questions ("have you tried...") and
I conclude that Scribus has no inbuilt tools to publish several
sized-versions from one master document. Are we really the only users
needing that?

Or are all your print-shops so great, that you create just one master
PDF/X4 and they do all the resizing without misunderstandings and
without misprints?

I thank for the idea to work from a big master and let all clones be
smaller, the principle is right. A0 is somewhat unwieldy so I am still
hoping for one brilliant idea for next time.


Since our plastic sheets are not the main-product, just some "additional
PR items", I will for this round use PDF-Creator (since I did not get
any Acrobat solutions from graphicdesign.stackexchange.com) and will
hack the A0 blow-ups as clones from our A3 PDF files, hoping that the
print-shops will handle the clones correctly.


There is still this feeling that i am just overlooking some very useful
setting in the PDF-export dialog-screens...


greetings and thanks again,

Martin



On 12.11.2019 12:55, ZASKE Martin wrote:
> Hello, we love Scribus and are using it for several years for all of our
> print productions and even when creating mini-art for distribution via
> messengers.
> 
> 
> Now I got stuck again with our work-flow:
> 
> 
> We made a calendar poster in size A3 and had 2500 copies digitally
> printed on card-stock. Fine.
> 
> 
> Now I want to print a few copies of this calendar in size A0 on such
> huge plastic-sheets for outdoor advertising and for reading with groups
> of people. (No worries, our photos are good enough to be enlarged this
> far, because we have allowed for that.)
> 
> 
> 
> The digital print-shop for those plastic sheets is in Africa and I am
> now on another continent for a few more months. I have used this
> print-shop a few times and we like their output. But I have reason not
> to trust their internal communications.
> 
> So in short, I could just order with a copy of our A3 PDF/X4 files and
> request "please enlarge to A0" but this request will either be lost
> between sales and production or they might use a sheet of A0 material
> and print our A3 calendar in one corner or whatever.
> 
> What I need is an efficient way inside Scribus to prepare a document (a
> master) and then create different PDF/X4 exports for different purposes
> (like main-product in A3 poster-size, mini-copies for example A5 for
> publicity-flyers, huge-copies for example A0 for outdoor-advertising).
> 
> When I have sent full-size A0 PDF/X4 to this print-shop in the past,
> then I always got what I needed; I believe this is what they requested
> some years ago when I went myself to place our first order.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I do not even know whether the best solution is to create several
> different-size "master" documents in Scribus or whether I can find tools
> to use the main PDF export in A3 and create upscaled and downscaled copies.
> 
> I have asked a similar question a few days ago on
> graphicdesign.stackexchange.com but have not received any answers at
> all. So if you want to earn points, feel free to answer there too.
> 
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> 


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