Re: Is it possible to make a booklet using Frame?

[Jay Smith <jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Abbie,

Yes, you want to find a pre-printing processing program that will take your
(probably .ps or .pdf file) and paginate it (called "imposition") for booklet
printing.

FARTHER BELOW are a couple of ideas you may wish to pursue.  However, I
*think* I checked out ClickBook and I *think* that I recall that it could not
process certain image formats in the document/file; particularly EPS images. 
Examine such issues very carefully.

-- 
Jay Smith

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ONE THOUGHT IS FROM:
Schwedland, Steve wrote:
> 
> I downloaded a demo of an Arobat Plug-in named Quite Imposing.  This
> sounds like it will do exactly what you want.  here is the web sute:
http://www.quite.com/imposing/
> 
> I do not endorse this product, in fact I really don't know much about
> it, but it sounds like what you need.
> 

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ANOTHER THOUGHT IS FROM...

   Date: on, 13 Jul 1998 15:26:26 -0400 (EDT)
   From: Alison Hodges <ahodges@belmont.com>

Working on Windows '95, I've used ClickBook to create booklets with the same
page size specifications you mention. Caveat: I've only needed to use it
with documents created in Word (v7), so don't know about any issues you
might encounter using it with Frame. Check out their URL at:

http://www.bluesquirrel.com/clickbook/

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YET ANOTHER THOUGHT IS FROM....

   Date:     Fri, 10 Jul 1998 08:54:51 -0500
   From:    "Ekberg, Tom" <TEkberg@coyotetech.com>

The FrameMaker FAQ
(http://www.uni-passau.de/archive/faq/FrameMaker.faq.html) shows the
following:

** PRT-4: How can I print pages in pamphlet/booklet/signature order? 

Pamphlet/booklet/signature order is where two logical pages are
printed on each side of a physical sheet of paper, double-sided, and
the pages are folded and stapled in the middle.  For a 2-sheet, 8 page
booklet, the page order would be: 8 & 1, 2 & 7, 6 & 3, 4 & 5.

*** A. PSUtils
PSUtils is a package of utilities to manipulate PostScript files.
Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement
into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for
2up/4up/8up/9up printing.

psbook          rearranges pages into signatures
psselect        selects pages and page ranges
pstops          performs general page rearrangement and selection
psnup           uses pstops to merge multiple pages per sheet
epsffit         fits an EPSF file to a given bounding box

PSutils is available from ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/ajcd/psutils.tar.Z 

It is written by Angus Duggan.  The package is also available in the
news:comp.sources.misc archives, or mail a message to
archie@archie.unl.edu
with the single body line of
        prog psutils

Tom Ekberg,  TEkberg@coyotetech.com
Coyote Technologies, LLC
972-889-5212

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Abbie Weisenbloom wrote:
> 
> Before I give up on Frame as a solution for this little booklet and resort
> to Pagemaker ...
> 
> Has anyone ever tried to make a booklet using Framemaker; a booklet being
> printed in landscape format in a two column layout and stapled in the
> center? I tried to do it using multi-flow text frames, however, that doesn't
> seem to take into account the printing order in this kind of document.
> 
> Tech support recommended finding a specialized printer driver. Has anyone
> ever heard of one that would work?
> 
> -- Abbie
>

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