Ah! I was envisioning duplex printing from a single layout, or potentially making a .pdf. Your approach should let you keep the trim lines so they match. After you get the front side layout to work (header/footer/printer defaults, I think), you¹ll duplicate and modify for the back side without changing the position of your rectangle.
Blake On 11/11/09 2:45 PM, "Richard S. Russell" <[email protected]> sent: > > On 2009 Nov 10, at 16:14, Blake Downes wrote: > >> >> Richard, >> >> >> This may be an effect of the printer's minimum margins affecting your >> >> >> output. Try reducing the height of your rectangle, and consider making its >> >> >> border invisible unless you want some paper-cutting challenges. > > > The whole purpose of the rectangle is to produce printed trim lines to make it > easy to cut the sheets into equal-sized cards, so I'm reluctant to part with > it. > >> >> >> THEN, unless these are actually tent-style flashcards, look at the question >> >> >> of getting the back side of the card to align properly and contain the >> >> >> "answer" from the appropriate front-side record's "question". > > I just used the "brute force" method. On the way to the card-front layout, I > use a "replace" command to insert serial numbers into the "Front Sorter" > field. The "Back Sorter" field is a byproduct calculation, equal to "Front > Sorter" if odd, equal to "Front Sorter" minus 1.5 if even. Then I sort by > "Back Sorter" on the way to the layout for the backs of the cards. > > I still have to warn the users to "reshuffle the deck" from the card-front > output so the sheets themselves will be in proper sequence for printing the > backs, but the left-right shift isn't a problem. > > Blake Downes Health Survey Research Center School of Public Health University of Minnesota Phone: 612-626-8822
