You can bring up a dialog showing an outline of your. says above, it really depends on what OS you're using and exactly what you want to do. Typical objects on a Master Page might be titles with associated graphics, and a page number. See attached image which uses GIMP Magazine as an example.Īs a.l.e. Then diss-assemble and have your layout or imposition-plan. Full number of pages, no shortcuts, smaller size if you want. Then you need to manually change the page number - PP/Image/Page Number - which is a bit of a pain for 98 pages but once it's done you should be able to use this new document as a "thumbnail print preview". We are doing this for years in our office on our own lasers and we are still using this humble tool: Make yourself a dummy, for example using scrap paper.
SCRIBUS PAGE NUMBER PDF
Then you can use file explorer/finder - or whatever you have in your OS - to view the files as thumbnails which you can then set to whatever size you want (or are allowed) and just browse them as you would any other images.Īlternatively, you can create a new Scribus document, put an image frame on the page, get the PDF as the image, then make a grid of image frames by using the "Multiple Duplicate" function. Most printer drivers allow you to do this and you should be able to print to a PDF for on-screen viewing if that's needed instead of a paper copy.Īnother example, if you don't need to actually print the thumbnails - and just want to view them on screen - you can use the "Export as Image" function to export all of the pages as images (you can tell Scribus to export them all together). is a very simple but effective way of getting an overview of your document. Printing multiple pages per sheet - as suggested by a.l.e.
TLGwegg, there are probably lots of ways to get what you want, if I've understood your requirements properly, but they don't all use Scribus and they will be dependant on what OS you're using.