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#21
Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...
Last post by ehbowen - December 03, 2024, 06:42:49 AMQuote from: AdmFubar on December 03, 2024, 05:05:05 AMLot of info is missing about your document. From what i can see from the images provided, your top margin is out of whack. Cant determine why from just the images.
Would need to see the whole document to find what is wrong. Can you attach the document for us to peruse? If you can use the collect for output, and then zip the directory so we can have all the relevant bits of the file.
Okay. I had to crunch it down quite a bit as I was using the full-resolution stock photo files I purchased, so the original file was over 54 megs...! But I replaced the images with downscaled versions and kept the same layout, and I still have the same printing problem. So I'll upload that now.
Thanks for taking a look at it. I'm wanting to move to in-house design using open source software as opposed to the expensive preprinted bulletin services. So I'd like to get Scribus working successfully.
By the way, if I was to go back to my original four-page layout...is there a PDF option which will print it correctly as far as page order? I couldn't find it and ended up moving the back cover to Page 1.
#22
Installation and Setup / Re: Why Can't I Print Full Siz...
Last post by AdmFubar - December 03, 2024, 05:05:05 AMLot of info is missing about your document. From what i can see from the images provided, your top margin is out of whack. Cant determine why from just the images.
Would need to see the whole document to find what is wrong. Can you attach the document for us to peruse? If you can use the collect for output, and then zip the directory so we can have all the relevant bits of the file.
Would need to see the whole document to find what is wrong. Can you attach the document for us to peruse? If you can use the collect for output, and then zip the directory so we can have all the relevant bits of the file.
#23
Installation and Setup / Why Can't I Print Full Size?
Last post by ehbowen - December 02, 2024, 10:08:10 PMOkay. I've been using Scribus for about a year now, mostly for formatting full-length novels, and they all came out great. So I thought that a church bulletin should be simplicity itself. Key words: "should be..."
I had formal experience as a typesetter and layout man many moons ago before I began boiling water as a day job, so I knew what I wanted to do. Simple church bulletin, four page layout, each page 5.25" x 8", printed front and back on a letter-size sheet of premium quality bond paper, trim the edges for bleed, and fold to finished size. And I wanted to do it in Scribus.
The layout was beautiful (see attachments). But I could NOT get it to print full size, with the two sides aligned on the fold line! I tried exporting it to PDF, I tried printing directly, I tried playing with the bleed and margin setting...each time it came out about 75% the size of what I intended, with the two sides misaligned.
After staying up and playing with it past midnight Saturday on into Sunday morning I threw in the towel, exported the pages individually, pasted them together into LibreOffice Draw, and called it a night. I can do that this week if necessary. But I'd much rather get Scribus working the way I think it should. Any help?
(Legalities note: Artwork is either licensed from DepositPhotos, contributed by the denomination our church is a member of, or internally generated. All typefaces are open source and free for commercial usage.)
I had formal experience as a typesetter and layout man many moons ago before I began boiling water as a day job, so I knew what I wanted to do. Simple church bulletin, four page layout, each page 5.25" x 8", printed front and back on a letter-size sheet of premium quality bond paper, trim the edges for bleed, and fold to finished size. And I wanted to do it in Scribus.
The layout was beautiful (see attachments). But I could NOT get it to print full size, with the two sides aligned on the fold line! I tried exporting it to PDF, I tried printing directly, I tried playing with the bleed and margin setting...each time it came out about 75% the size of what I intended, with the two sides misaligned.
After staying up and playing with it past midnight Saturday on into Sunday morning I threw in the towel, exported the pages individually, pasted them together into LibreOffice Draw, and called it a night. I can do that this week if necessary. But I'd much rather get Scribus working the way I think it should. Any help?
(Legalities note: Artwork is either licensed from DepositPhotos, contributed by the denomination our church is a member of, or internally generated. All typefaces are open source and free for commercial usage.)
#24
PDF Generation / Re: Prepress: any tips for aut...
Last post by Aleks100 - December 02, 2024, 01:12:35 PMWell, my Prepress experience goes before pdf, as Postscript files for filming on Hard Disk, so I always put my marks & my color bars.
#25
Beginner Talk / Re: Insert page gives A5 inste...
Last post by Leon_Heller - December 01, 2024, 10:54:34 PMQuote from: utnik on December 01, 2024, 07:47:28 PMusually this sort of things happen, when a file was generated in a5 and later changed to a4, without checking the box to 'apply changes to all master pages'.
utnik
Thanks! That was the problem.
#26
Beginner Talk / Re: Insert page gives A5 inste...
Last post by Leon_Heller - December 01, 2024, 10:48:11 PMScribus 1.6.2 and Windows 11
#27
PDF Generation / Re: Prepress: any tips for aut...
Last post by Nermander - December 01, 2024, 08:52:42 PMAs I said, they do not allow both Trimbox and Artbox, which is a bit strange since both boxes are allowed by the PDF format and the Artbox will in most cases just be ignored. The error message says there is both an Artbox and a Trimbox, and that would not have anything to do wit missing trim marks.
With a PDF, you don't need trim marks, because there is the Trimbox.
My impression is that the specification is for ads, but OP mentions a 4 page document. So either OP has ordered the wrong print, or the printer has misunderstood.
With a PDF, you don't need trim marks, because there is the Trimbox.
My impression is that the specification is for ads, but OP mentions a 4 page document. So either OP has ordered the wrong print, or the printer has misunderstood.
#28
Beginner Talk / Re: Insert page gives A5 inste...
Last post by utnik - December 01, 2024, 07:47:28 PMusually this sort of things happen, when a file was generated in a5 and later changed to a4, without checking the box to 'apply changes to all master pages'.
utnik
utnik
#29
Beginner Talk / Re: Insert page gives A5 inste...
Last post by tim_occ - December 01, 2024, 07:29:05 PMWhat is your Scribus version and operating system?
#30
PDF Generation / Re: Prepress: any tips for aut...
Last post by Aleks100 - December 01, 2024, 06:09:34 PMYes, 1 sheet. My bad English translation.
"One page" thing could be head-to-head imposed pages so printer can print half run on double sized paper, then cut everything in half to get full number of copies.
As far as boxes, perhaps OP didn't put trim marks.
"One page" thing could be head-to-head imposed pages so printer can print half run on double sized paper, then cut everything in half to get full number of copies.
As far as boxes, perhaps OP didn't put trim marks.