On 5/29/05, Ralph Shumaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
> >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.
I think that is one of the things that "psbook" will do. Except that
if you want to print on both sides of the sheet (duplex) you either
need printer hardware that will do that or you need to separate the
job into front sides and back sides for manual duplexing.
If "psbook" doesn't do that by itself, "psselect" will. Psselect will
even print the front sides in reverse order so you can then just turn
the stack over and print the back sides in forward order.
Be aware that if your printer has any tendency to pick two sheets of
paper at once, then manual duplexing is a short trip toward madness,
since back sides can get onto the reverse of the wrong front sides.
carl
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