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Hi Robin,

I offered my pamphlet on home publishing yonks ago. So don't say you weren't
asked.

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.

best

Randolph

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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2001 7:25 PM
Subject: Self-publication: pagination


> ... for a pamplet printed on A4 sheets (two A5 pages per side per sheet,
and
> centre-stapled) can be worked out on an Excel (or other) spreadsheet.
>
> Essentially, you set up a  2x4 eight-cell block, with your last page in
cell
> one and your first in cell two, your second page in cell three and your
> second-last in cell four.
>
> Then add in the formulae.  Thus Chide1 would begin:
>
> 68             1
> 2             67
> =(A4-2)   =(B5+2)
> =(A5+2)  =(B6-2)
>
> Then you copy cells 5-8 as many times as is necessary and clever ole Excel
> generates the pagination.
>
> Generalises -- simply replace the last page/2nd last page in cells one and
> four.
>
> Seems to work (so far!).
>
> I wouldn't have bothered to post this (you'd assume it would be general
> knowledge) but [a] as far as I can see, it's not on the web -- I had to
work
> out the [admittedly simple] formulae from a physical eight-page-pamphlet
> illustration there -- and [b] no one mentioned this when I posted my
> original query.
>
> [Incidentally, isn't there +anywhere+ on the Web with "An Idiot's Guide to
> Self Publication, using your own computer and whatever printer you happen
to
> have to hand"?  I feel I'm reinventing the wheel.]
>
> So maybe it will be of help to some other poor mug in the same position as
> me.
>
> Or as Josie is no doubt tempted to say, "See why you should employ a
> professional printer!"
>
> Cheers
>
> Robin
>