Emma, Peter Cavender, and I have the same difficulty understanding why the New Document dialogue allows you to choose Single-sided, Double-sided, 3-fold, and 4-fold documents, expecting the latter two to create leaflets with the stated number of folds. In fact, these would better be described as 2-fold, 6-page and 3-fold, 8-page, since this is the number of pages on both "sides".
Peter Nermander explained that these choices merely *display* the pages the way they are meant to be printed. Is this saying that they are tiles to be joined in a long strip after printing? I can see that in the case of a book or magazine, the pages are displayed in spreads of two facing pages because that is how you lay them out, particular if a graphic crosses the gutter (inside or binding edge). If my tiling supposition is correct, then displaying three or four pages abutted together would also allow the placement of items that cross the folds. And I can see that the Normal Middle default master is used for pages that don't have any outside cut edges but whose "edges" are just folds. The Normal Right and Normal Left masters are clearly used for the ends of the strip because they have one right or left edge that is actually trimmed. There is clearly a disjunct here between the meaning of the four doc icons (Single, Double, 3-fold, 4-fold) that the developers intend for them and the somewhat different meaning that users, especially newbies like Emma and I, are reading into them. Perhaps the label Document Layout above the icons should be changed to Display Layout (except that you get different sets of Normal default master pages wtih each choice). Perhaps someone can give some examples of documents where you would choose the 3-fold or 4-fold options and what advantages that would give to see 3 or 4 pages displayed side-by-side. A few examples may clarify where general explanations won't! Would the developers consider adding ToolTips popups to the four icons that explain what their intention is? Sorry to go on and on, but the 3-fold and 4-fold have got me baffled as to what use they are. Years ago when I had to do 4-page and 6-page folded leaflets, I just laid them out the way Gregory suggested, as appropriately sized sheets with guides for the folds, margins, etc. and created my own bleed area in which to put the fold marks for the printer. Regards, Hedley -- Hedley Stewart Finger 28 Regent Street Camberwell VIC 3124 Australia Tel. +61 3 9809 1229 Mobile +61 412 461 558, E-mail <mailto:hfinger at handholding.com.au>
