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But Lechner illustrates and prints his own cartoon books, so he wanted full control over the process. Professional print shops often handle impositioning themselves, which for large runs enables them to minimize paper usage and other costs. More complicated procedures, such as printing on large stock, folding, and cutting, are also part of the process. An impositioning tool performs that step for you, and recalculates if you add or remove pages.
With an application like Scribus, if you wish to print (for example) a booklet on letter-sized paper folded in half, you must manually figure out which pages go back-to-back and arrange them in Scribus so that the final result, when printed, folds into the correct order front-to-back. The initial goal of Laidout was to serve as an open source tool for impositioning that is, laying out a document that was designed on a per-page basis (as all word processors and essentially all desktop publishers do) with full control over how the individual pages are arranged and aligned on the physical paper. Open source competition - for manipulating images and documents destined for printing. The application offers an eclectic mix of tools - many with no other Video of the presentation is online,īut for a closer look you can download the code yourself and try it out. Meeting 2010 in Brussels, garnering widespread praise from the attendeesįor its technical abilities. His application Laidout at Libre Graphics This article was contributed by Nathan Willis
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