-----Original Message----- From: davidpilling-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:davidpilling-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of M Harding Sent: 05 February 2011 16:03 To: davidpilling@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling 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 To unsubscribe or subscribe goto: //www.freelists.org/list/davidpilling