[softwarelist] Re: A6 booklet production
- From: "jeff.wallis" <jeff.wallis@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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- Date: Sat, 5 Feb 2011 16:32:44 -0000
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Subject: [softwarelist] A6 booklet production
A6 booklets via OvPro
I need to produce an A6 size booklet for our Probus Club (i.e. each page as
1/4 of an A4 sheet). The front and back covers vary slightly annually; the 2
pages listing meetings/events change entirely each year; the 3 constitution
pages remain static; and 7 pages contain a directory of members which varies
slightly as members are lost and added. The whole product runs to 16 A6
sides.
I've codged a complicated version in OvPro, but wonder whether there's an
elegant or even simple way to produce it?
My work-around involved in effect printing on A4 portrait paper, the upper
half making up one booklet and the lower half a second identical copy: these
can eventually be guillotined to make up 2 copies.
Tackling first the top half of the A4 sheet, I divided it laterally into 2,
and used frames 138mm H x 90mm W for the text.
Most of the content is in 10pt, using a condensed font (EFF's deGaulle
Condensed) for clarity and to accommodate some extensive addresses.
Sorting the order of pages was a nightmare - I cut up A4 sheets and made a
blank mock-up with each page numbered, then took it apart to see which page
came next to another in printing. Next I copied-and-pasted chunks of the
master text (front page / officers / lists of events / directory /
constitution / back page) and put a little page number in a separate frame
in each appropriate corner.
Phew!
And having done that for the top half of every A4 page, I then replicated
each to the lower half, to give 2 copies for every print-run. Printing was a
matter of hope - that I'd got each page in the right order and the right way
up. But it did work - just.
Somehow a member has been producing copies using Word . . Ugh!
Is there a simpler method anyone can suggest? Has anyone written an applet?
Michael Harding
Rev. Preb. M.D. Harding riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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My suggestion would be:
Set up your page size to A6 and enter your copy.
When you print - in the print dialogue set the printing to 'printers pairs'.
Load A5 paper ( landscape or if short edge first then set 'print sideways in
printer dialogue) in your printer
Print document odd pages
Turn paper over and print document even pages.
Jeff W
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