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Which will take two A5 pages and put them on A4 paper. (Take a look to the man page of psnup) You can alternatively use the -p and -P flags to indicate page sizes: If you have different page sizes, then simply change the dimensions. Which arranges two logical pages of the size 105x163mm on a sheet of the size 210x163mm. It should be a multiple of four.ģ) Arrange the pages so two logical pages are printed on one physical sheet: Where 16 is the number of pages that your document has.

This creates a postscript file named 'file.ps' The booklet can than simply be printed from within Scribus.ġ) Change the document format to postscript:

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To print a booklet with pagesizes other than A5 you have two possibilities:Ī) You use Scribus to create a pdf and you do the necessary changes on the command line (with psutils).ī) KDE users can create a filter.

KDE (specifically kprinter) - only if you choose the method B.

BROCHURE DESIGNING IN SCRIBUS 1.4.8 MANUALS

This is great for printing out lengthy texts from the internet, manuals etc. Ok, it's not quite the Gutenberg bible, but it's something you could charge money for more easily than a wodge of A4 you've printed out and stuck a staple through the corner of. If you want a slightly smarter looking product you could print the outer sheet on coloured paper. Hint: the end of the stapler needs to go further over the fold than you think, or that's what I find anyway. A good long-arm stapler is good, but you can get away with a smaller one at a pinch. If it's all worked properly, the pages are all in the right place, the right way up etc, you can fold the pamphlet, stick a staple through it and you're done. Print the document again using the same process but selecting Pamphlet Printing - Odd Pages.It might be the same with your printer, if not you'll have to experiment. Put them back in your printer - on my printer they go in the tray printed side up, with the top of the text to the left. Wait for the pages to come out of your printer. Select Pamphlet Printing - Even pages and click OK until you're back at the main kprinter dialogue.If you've got a better printer than me I'm too envious to help you, sorry. If like me you've only got a bog-standard non-duplex printer, you'll have to do this the slightly longer way. Click on the tab labeled Filters (you'll might have to scroll to the right to see it). Select the printer you want to print to (which can be a pdf file or whatever) and click on Properties. You should now be at the kprinter dialogue.In the printer dialogue select Alternative printer command and type kprinter in the box. So, find or make a document on A4 (or letter) pages, er, using Scribus.Ok, actually that last one's optional but I thought it would be polite to mention it under the circumstances.

To use this method you'll need KDE (specifically kprinter) and psutils installed. This is because kprinter provides us with a nice frontend which means we can do everything via nice and easy pointing and clicking. The workhorse of the method I will describe is the psutils suite of commandline utilities, but don't let that put you off, you don't ever have to even see them.

In my opinion this makes for a more readable, tree-friendlier, smarter-looking end-product. If you have a bunch of stuff laid out in A4 (or letter if you're a foreigner) you can easily turn it into an A5 booklet / pamphlet. Ok, strictly speaking this is only tangentially related to Scribus, but I think it's very useful to know.

2.4 Method B: creating your own filter for kprinter.

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