Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
On May 3, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: I think Johannes Gebauer mentioned CocoaBooklet. This is a free OSX utility that takes page-oriented PDFs and produces booklet-oriented PDFs from them, which you can then print directly with the free version of Adobe Reader or with Preview. I use CocoaBooklet all the time and recommend it highly. If you have the Finale mus files, you can also print to a booklet-oriented PDF directly from Finale. That's great to know (and thanks to everyone else who responded)--but having solved the booklet issue, how do I then print out the booklet 2-up? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
When I say booklet-oriented, what I mean is that it is already 2-up in the pdf file. So there is no need for Adobe Reader to print 2-up. You just print straight to your large-format paper. -Original Message- From: Andrew Stiller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 5, 2005 06:29 PM To: finale@shsu.edu Subject: Re: [Finale] pdf booklets On May 3, 2005, at 2:56 PM, Robert Patterson wrote: I think Johannes Gebauer mentioned CocoaBooklet. This is a free OSX utility that takes page-oriented PDFs and produces booklet-oriented PDFs from them, which you can then print directly with the free version of Adobe Reader or with Preview. I use CocoaBooklet all the time and recommend it highly. If you have the Finale mus files, you can also print to a booklet-oriented PDF directly from Finale. That's great to know (and thanks to everyone else who responded)--but having solved the booklet issue, how do I then print out the booklet 2-up? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
Andrew Stiller wrote: I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf files of his scores, which I can read and print w. Acrobat Reader 6.0.1, but now we have hit a snag. To make a choral octavo, my usual practice is to assign the Finale page size to 7 x 8.5, then print 2-up as a staple-bound booklet on folded legal paper. OK, keeping in mind that I use WINfin, and there may be reasons that may not work on a MAC. why not have your composer friend use the printing dialogs so that the ~.pdfs you receive are the composition printed 2 up landscape on 8-1/2 x 14 paper. He may need to send the pages separately, but you can print the pdfs out, fold, and staple as you normally do. Alternatively, you can download the Ghostscript / Ghostview utility for MAC, and have your friend download and install the driver for a postscript printer (such as the HP 5000). He uses the printer dialog to set the composition for booklet printing, two-up on 8-1/2 x 14 paper in landscape format, and print to file. He forwards to you the printer file, and you use Ghostscript / Ghostview to take the ~.ps file, and convert that to a ~.pdf. Or, of course, he can download the Ghostscript / Ghostview utility, too, and do the conversion himself. ns ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
There are several little shareware applications which can make booklets out of single page pdfs, one is called CocoaBooklet. Look for them at versiontracker. Otherwise create a printer driver which prints to a PS file and use Finale script to make your booklet. Johannes Andrew Stiller schrieb: I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf files of his scores, which I can read and print w. Acrobat Reader 6.0.1, but now we have hit a snag. To make a choral octavo, my usual practice is to assign the Finale page size to 7 x 8.5, then print 2-up as a staple-bound booklet on folded legal paper. The options for 2-up printing and for booklet printing (the page-range box) are in the Finale popup menu in the Print dialog, so I cannot execute them in Reader. There must be a way for the composer to embed these instructions in his pdf files, but neither of us has any idea how. I think he has the full Acrobat program, but I don't know what version. I have only the Reader. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale -- http://www.musikmanufaktur.com http://www.camerata-berolinensis.de ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
I do what you want all the time, except that I do it in a larger size but the process is the same. Here is the procedure: prepare what you are going to print in multiples of four, eight, sixteens,etc. even when your documents don't have the exact number of pages, that is, if you have a document with, say, six or seven pages, prepare it as if it had eight, leaving the rest of the pages in blank. In the cases where the document has eight pages , which requires that you print four on each piece of paper ( two on each side) your numbering should be 8-1 on one side and 7-2 on the other side, the second piece of paper should be numbered thus: 6-3 on one side and 4-5 on the other side (left to right on both cases, I clarify this because I don't know if you are from oriental procedence where reading as well as counting is done from right to left) . If you are going to print direct from Finale all you have to do is instruct the program to print according to the instructions given above. I take it you already know how to do this. Now, if you are going to print your booklets from a PDF that's a different story because you need, number one the professional version of acrobat and number two an imposition program which is what is going to instruct Acrobat and the printer on how to distribute the pages according to the needed layout. You can visit Planet PDF where you'll find different imposition programs to suit your needs. Should this explanation be insufficient or not clear enough I will be glad to extend myself in the subject. In the meantime I remain yours, truly. GR Andrew Stiller wrote: I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf files of his scores, which I can read and print w. Acrobat Reader 6.0.1, but now we have hit a snag. To make a choral octavo, my usual practice is to assign the Finale page size to 7 x 8.5, then print 2-up as a staple-bound booklet on folded legal paper. The options for 2-up printing and for booklet printing (the page-range box) are in the Finale popup menu in the Print dialog, so I cannot execute them in Reader. There must be a way for the composer to embed these instructions in his pdf files, but neither of us has any idea how. I think he has the full Acrobat program, but I don't know what version. I have only the Reader. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
I think Johannes Gebauer mentioned CocoaBooklet. This is a free OSX utility that takes page-oriented PDFs and produces booklet-oriented PDFs from them, which you can then print directly with the free version of Adobe Reader or with Preview. I use CocoaBooklet all the time and recommend it highly. If you have the Finale mus files, you can also print to a booklet-oriented PDF directly from Finale. ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
[Finale] pdf booklets
I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf files of his scores, which I can read and print w. Acrobat Reader 6.0.1, but now we have hit a snag. To make a choral octavo, my usual practice is to assign the Finale page size to 7 x 8.5, then print 2-up as a staple-bound booklet on folded legal paper. The options for 2-up printing and for booklet printing (the page-range box) are in the Finale popup menu in the Print dialog, so I cannot execute them in Reader. There must be a way for the composer to embed these instructions in his pdf files, but neither of us has any idea how. I think he has the full Acrobat program, but I don't know what version. I have only the Reader. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
Re: [Finale] pdf booklets
Can't he just print preview the file the way it needs to be, and save as a version to send to you, Or have I missed something? steve On May 2, 2005, at 11:52 PM, Andrew Stiller wrote: I have FinMac 2K4, and I'm working w. a composer who uses FinMac 2K5. We had arranged that he would make pdf files of his scores, which I can read and print w. Acrobat Reader 6.0.1, but now we have hit a snag. To make a choral octavo, my usual practice is to assign the Finale page size to 7 x 8.5, then print 2-up as a staple-bound booklet on folded legal paper. The options for 2-up printing and for booklet printing (the page-range box) are in the Finale popup menu in the Print dialog, so I cannot execute them in Reader. There must be a way for the composer to embed these instructions in his pdf files, but neither of us has any idea how. I think he has the full Acrobat program, but I don't know what version. I have only the Reader. Any advice? Andrew Stiller Kallisti Music Press http://home.netcom.com/~kallisti/ ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale ___ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
