is brilliant Jill. Is there nothing those cardboard tubes can't do!
Another possibility is sewing, which may be a better long term solution as
staples can rust. It's possible to sew a booklet of up to 120 pages in less
than 90 seconds. There's a booklet explaining the method, which my wife
Louise first showed me, at www.wildhoneypress.com. Click on _New_ and you'll
find it. (It's a pdf file so you'll need the freebie acrobat reader. Also
it's in three columns per page, to print as a gatefold, but one can read it
well enough on screen.)
Using a physical mock up booklet was essential for one of my chappies,
_Flame_ where the pagination follows the decimal expansion of the irrational
number phi. (There's all this stuff about order and chaos in the text, and
phi is one representation of the golden mean, the epitome of order in Greek
architecture, not to mention the pine cone, yet as an irrational number it
may also be considered to be a random sequence.)
best
Randolph
PS my mail server is down. temporarily I hope. On it's revival some messages
may rise again. Please ignore in that case.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jill Jones" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 11:13 PM
Subject: Re: Self-publication: pagination
> on 30/8/01 4:37 AM, Louise Mac Mahon at [log in to unmask] wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> I used to just draw up a mock up with a pencil on a piece of paper. Old
> technology I know but it worked.
>
> Also, when doing smaller books without the benefit of a long-handled
stapler
> I would staple the pages together with an ordinary office stapler onto a
> hollow cardboard cylinder (the kind you get for posting or even have in
the
> kitchen for clingwrap etc). Then lift the booklet carefully off and close
> the staples by hand. A trick I learnt from a graphic designer.
>
> Cheers,
> Jill
>
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