[Q] Python script written to generate spine marks

Previous topic - Next topic

jirib

Quote from: Nermander on May 13, 2025, 04:58:32 PM
Quote from: jirib on May 13, 2025, 02:34:30 PMWe have either single page or facing-pages (two only);

There is nothing preventing you from creating pages of different width, the setting you are talking about is just how they are placed on the screen when working on them.

So you can create a back matter page, a narrow spine page and a front matter page. But of course they will still be individual pages, so to combine them we need something more.

This is not comfortable since if you would like to have an image over both cover pages the idea seems a bit odd...

utnik

hi jirib

scribus does not support impositioning. you need another tool for this.
...and your bug reports look as if you're printing direct from the .sla file. if this is the case, just stop it and print from a .pdf reader...

utnik

a.l.e

scribus used to have more than single and double pages, but people where mostly using it "wrong".
(also because scribus does not natively support imposition, as utnik correctly says)

indeed, a layout per section could be a bit more interesting for scribus, than the old rather basic "three fold".

Nermander

Quote from: AdmFubar on May 13, 2025, 05:14:13 PMI've always thought of it as a separate document. Instead of separate pages, just one wide page that would include the front, spine, and back cover. Additional lengths for flaps that would wrap around the front and back cover for hardbound books.

Yes, I guess that is how most people would design it. Doing it the way we are talking about here I feel is a very limited case of use when people have not designed it that way.

Now, if you have it in separate pieces like this, I would probably assemble them in a separate document. Potentially by first exporting to PDF and the importing the PDFs and placing them on the larger sheet.

I assume in most cases you would in any case print it separately, on a different sheet size than the book body.

a.l.e

hi jirib

i fear that if you post patches, the minimum you should do, is to compile the new code and see if it runs.

testing if does what you intended to achieve is not a bad either.

if you need help for compiling scribus on your machine, raise your hand, and i can see how i (or somebody else around here) can help you...

jirib

Quote from: a.l.e on May 13, 2025, 10:13:28 PMhi jirib

i fear that if you post patches, the minimum you should do, is to compile the new code and see if it runs.

testing if does what you intended to achieve is not a bad either.

if you need help for compiling scribus on your machine, raise your hand, and i can see how i (or somebody else around here) can help you...

i'm trying now... my Debian unstable machine is too slow :)