Randolph:
> I offered my pamphlet on home publishing yonks ago. So don't say you
weren't
> asked.
Sounds just what I was (am!) looking for -- but I haven't come across it.
Tell more?
> Before I started to use MS Publisher to do the pagination of booklets I
used
> to make up a mock book, cutting a sheet in half repeatedly until the final
> thing had the right number of pages. It usually looked turned out as a
> booklet the size of a matchbox. Then each page number was filled in by
hand.
> The advantage of this was that for double sided printing I knew what went
> behind what.
What drove me to where I am was something similar -- three days of cutting
and pasting with staples. When I discovered that I'd stappled the entire
mag onto a set of JUST ONE TOO FEW pages, and so the cut-and-staple
pagination was screwed yet once more, I thought it was time to try another
tack.
MS Publisher sounds like what I'm looking for (something into which you can
pour a linear WORD file and have it slosh into the rightly-paginated boxes).
But what does it cost? I don't currently have ANY dtp programs installed.
I think I (earlier tonight) managed, finally, to produce an electronic
master of Chide 1 in two WORD files.
Tomorrow, the test-print. ***
(A 14 page test-pamphlet [4 A4 sheets + wrap] I tried, with two blank pages,
was +much+ easier -- Chide [physically] uses 17 A4 sheets + wraparound
cover.)
Cheers
Robin
*** Thinking of which, and as a memo to myself, my current formula means
that when the first run of sheets emerges from the printer, you have to
shuffle them into reverse-sequence before reinserting them, to print the
second side. Gawd, I +hope+ I remember that tomorrow ...
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