On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:35 -0700, Tom Lechner wrote:
Just in case anyone's interested, I've been writing a program called Laidout to lay out cartoon books of mine. It features sort of arbitrary impositions, including the ability to have non-rectangular pages. It does make a distinction between page, paper, and also page spreads (how it looks assembled, rather than how it looks on master printing pages).
Wow, this is amazing. Net impositions in particular.
I'll be sure to give Laidout a mention when I give my talk at LGM about creating comics in Inkscape.
FWIW, I've also written my own package for handling layout and impressions for my comics, which (weird coincidence) I released this morning:
http://rubyforge.org/projects/minicomic
However, is a lot more modest in terms of its goals and capabilities: it's pretty much hard-coded for 5.5x8.5 folio minicomics. You just throw the page and/or spread SVGs in the directory and it does its thing.
-mental