mike scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] came back with: [...] > > > Has anybody done it, in OOo Writer? (bonus question.... How?) > > I'd anticipate a problem with the printing if nothing else - I'm not > sure that many will print /quite/ to the edge of the paper. Within > OOo it looks possible to manually put, say, a filled rectangle > outside the "word" margin and reaching page edge, and page preview > shows just this -- however printing even to a pdf pseudo-printer > loses the very edge of the objects to a printer margin, rather > defeating the point. > > I suspect commercial examples have been cut after printing.
Yes, that's how it was done when I last did this (nearly ten years ago, with FrameMaker. The page was designed to be physically smaller than the nearest larger "standard" size (I think they might have been printed twelve-up), and then trimmed after printing. That wasn't the part of the task that I was worried about. I was trying to figure out how to implement the automated (or even semi-automated) positioning and numbering of the bleed-blocks. I don't even remember how it was accomplished in FM - but it did depend on a craftily constructed model provided by a FrameMaker guru. I have long-since lost the templates-and-stuff, as well as the name of the guy... not that it matters because I'm not using FM these days. - Kevin The information contained in this electronic mail transmission may be privileged and confidential, and therefore, protected from disclosure. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to this message and deleting it from your computer without copying or disclosing it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
