Scribus imposition1/5/2024 A big problem is that you have to save and reopen your imposed document to make it work correctly. It also gives you a chance to put margins and gaps ( vert. I think both external ("linked") and internal (from the same document, possibly by importing a page an linking it or by using an existing page) support is important.Ībout, it's a try to allow Scribus users to make simple imposition in Scribus itself.įor now, it (is supposed to) support linked frames and master pages and all more simples things, but not linked frames IN master pages. Of course, it all hinges on support for pages in frames. When you consider that PyQt works just fine in Scribus 1.3, that has a LOT of potential. What's even better is that the user could edit the generated imposition, or create their own, or (as you suggested) script it. Being able to build that on support for pages-in-frames would make it a LOT easier, great idea. I expect it'd also be useful to be able to place a page from the same document into a frame.Įventually it might be nice to be able to add a special page type for impositions, so a doc could contain the normal pages, plus one or more impositions, and the user could pick which they want to print / export.Ĭombine that with a plug-in or even a PyQt script to automatically generate some common booklet impositions, and we're all set for booklet printing. where upon external documents might not be that much of a stretch. It'd probably have to wait until PageItems can contain PageItems though (groups, tables). As PageItem is starting to get saner (thanks cbradney!) now, this is looking more promising. I do think it's a very good idea to be able to "link" in a Scribus document such that it appears in a frame. MrB, any chance to get the pageitem & print stuff into a shape where this would be implementable? * true signature printing could create IMPs for sheets which are folded several times and take into account the slight rotation caused by this folding. * print shops could provide templates with their own IMPs * address labels would create an IMP according to label specs * booklet printing would generate IMPs as above and fill in empty pages at the users discretion One could then use Scripter to get more specialized functions: Since one could add other page items on the imposition masterpages (registers and stuff like that)Īnd the frames would be subject to scaling and rotation, this would be a very powerful and flexible mechanism. On the last imposition page some frames might be left blank.įor larger signatures one would need several imposition masterpages and link their frames across. When all frames of the imposition masterpage are filled, it is printed and printing resumes with a clean imposition page and the remaining normal pages. When printing impositions, Scribus would fill those frames with the normal pages, using the link-order of the frames. Such a masterpage would consist of empty linked frames. We could use special masterpages which describe the imposition.
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