Ralph Shumaker wrote:
Carl Lowenstein wrote:
On 5/15/05, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
begin quoting Ralph Shumaker as of Wed, May 11, 2005 at 08:42:35PM
-0700:
Is there a word processor that can pair up pages in the odd way
necessary to print a pamphlet?
Star Office 5.2 has a "brochure" option when printing. Perhaps that
would help?
[snip]
The way I've had to do it (a 47 page pamphlet) is *very* inconvenient.
Indeed.
47 is a rather odd number. Perhaps you can put a blank page at the end.
This is really a job for an imposition program separate from your word
processor.
First make the pages, then rearrange them. You can 'print' to a
PostScript file and then use pxbook for the shuffling. See the
man.page for psbook, a small excerpt is below.
DESCRIPTION
Psbook rearranges pages from a PostScript document into
''signatures''
for printing books or booklets, creating a new PostScript
file. The
input PostScript file should follow the Adobe Document
Structuring
Conventions.
carl
Although this is kind of along the lines of what I want, it does not
delve deeply enough (unless I didn't do it right). That changes the
sequence of the pages (sheets). But that is /not/ what I'm after.
In a word processor, I can get the pamphlet to look the way I want
from beginning to end. Now, forget the actual printing for the
moment. Let's look instead at one sheet of the paper on which it will
be printed. /After printing,/ I want to fold the US Letter size page
in half. On the outside of that sheet, I want (assuming a 4 page
pamphlet for this example) pages 4 and 1 on the outside with pages 2
and 3 on the inside. And for an 8 page pamphlet, the first sheet will
have pages 8 and 1 on the outside with pages 2 and 7 on the inside
followed by the second sheet with pages 3 and 6 on its outside and
pages 4 and 5 on its inside.
Everything I've looked at so far deals with each page of the pamphlet
as its own separate sheet of paper. And if I manually put the
correctly corresponding two pages onto the same sheet, I lose some of
the formatting as well as make it damned hard to modify later.
You might want to try Scribus. What it sounds like you need is not a
page arranger, but a page layout application. Scribus allows you to lay
out pages in layers and you can edit and rearrage elements of a page
independently.
Robert Donovan
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