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Booklets
by Jo on Thursday 30/Sep/2004, @07:24

Hi,

Can I use Scribus if I want to create A5 booklets printed on A4 paper, or A4 booklets printed on A3 paper? If my booklet has 48 pages, will page 48 and page 1 (2 and 47, 46 and 3, etc) be printed on two halves of a page? So I can just print it double sided, fold it in half and staple it?

If this works, is it then possible to add a graphic that spans from page 2 to page 3. So half of it is on page 2, the other half is on page 3. Is this taken care of automatically? I don't know if this is a good practice, but one sees it often in magazines and it is rather cool.

Jo

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Re: Booklets
by furanku on Wednesday 06/Oct/2004, @06:52

I don't know if scribus supports that, but to me that sounds mor like a job for pstops (a little tool made esp. for things like that)

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Re: Booklets
by Joeboy on Wednesday 12/Jan/2005, @05:21

It's on the Roadmap for 1.3 I think. I don't know if they're going for simple 'build booklet' functionality or more advanced imposition facilities.

You can build simple booklets using Cups and filters - I forget the details but I can explain if you respond to this message. No facility to adjust for creep as far as I could see unfortunately.

Probably lots of other ways of doing this too.

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Re: Booklets
by Sam Murray on Monday 14/Nov/2005, @09:44

I'd really like to see a template/wizard/whatever for making books/booklets in Scribus. I think it's a wee bit odd that a command line program is all that is viable for making these booklets ;)

Keep up the good work scribus.

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Re: Booklets
by Joeboy on Monday 14/Nov/2005, @10:40

http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/How_to_make_a_booklet

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Re: Booklets
by Sam Murray on Monday 14/Nov/2005, @22:54

Many thanks.
I'm using GNOME, not KDE but I'm sure there's a way around that. I'll try to get kprinter installed.
Sam

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Re: Booklets
by jscarry on Wednesday 25/Jan/2006, @10:04

This hint is for printing double-sided pages on a single-sided printer, not composing a booklet.

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Re: Booklets
by bovin on Thursday 20/Apr/2006, @04:49

There is a command line package called pdfbook that does this very thing from PDFs. If you don't mind installing latex, I think it's what you're looking for.

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/support/pdfbook/

Bovin

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