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Scribus => Layout Issues => Topic started by: rweilert on March 09, 2023, 12:11:12 PM

Title: Making A4 pages out of an A3 document
Post by: rweilert on March 09, 2023, 12:11:12 PM
There is a folded A4 flyer and I made it as an A3 landscape document. When folded, it makes 4 A4 pages.

Sometimes I am asked to mail the flyer instead of sending the printed version physically. For those people it is better to have four A4 pages which can be easily printed on any ordinary printer, if necessary.

So I thought about how to "convert" the A3 landscape page into two A4 pages. Is there a standard way to do this in Scribus, or do I have to find my "best pratice" to achieve it?

What I thought of first was to simply mark everything and copy it into another A4 page. But there are 6 layers, is there a way to copy everything in one go? I would then copy it twice, setting the original content once to the left, once to the right of the A4 page (so the rest hangs over to one or the other side resp.).

Or is there an easier way?

Thanks for all ideas!

Rolf
Title: Re: Making A4 pages out of an A3 document
Post by: utnik on March 09, 2023, 12:55:57 PM
hi rolf

there is another way (sort of a hack...)

now you have your content on four pages, but the last page is misplaced. for this you could either move the page to the end with 'windows' → 'arrange pages' and change the first page to a 'right page' in 'document setup' – or you might export the file and rearrange the pages with a .pdf handler...

utnik
Title: Re: Making A4 pages out of an A3 document
Post by: Nermander on March 09, 2023, 03:54:21 PM
I would look into using a PDF tool to split the PDF.

A quick google search found this page, listing several options.

https://lightpdf.com/split-pdf-a3-to-a4.html