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Today's Topics:
1. [WS7] Acrobat Reader 8 and booklet printing
(Philip Griffin-Allwood)
2. Re: [WS7] Acrobat Reader 8 and booklet printing (Diana Kirk)
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Date: Sun, 24 Dec 2006 01:05:32 -0400
From: "Philip Griffin-Allwood" <grifwood@glinx.com>
Subject: WordStar: [WS7] Acrobat Reader 8 and booklet printing
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Sunday 24 December 2006
Hi All!
When I upgraded to Acrobat Reader 8 on my WinXP Home systems, I noticed
that one of the improvements claimed for the new release was booklet
printing. Our office printer is a networked Canon IR400. Usually I
print to it using a PrintFile/Ghostscript combo.
My weekly ? letter page brochure is 12 pages long. Normally I print it
over the network in four stages (batches of three pages). But, with
the upgrade of AR, I decided to test booklet printing with a PDF
created with WS7. It was a little tricky, but the booklet printed
fine. The tricks were:
[1] Set AR8 to print "reverse pages".
[2] Set AR8 to "choose paper source by PDF page size".
[3] Set the IR400 to Portrait.
[4] Set the IR400 to double sided printing on short side.
[5] Set the IR400 to the only brochure option left.
[6] Make sure that your WS7 document has content for each page in the
brochure, including blank pages.
Besides setting the page length to 5.5 inches, creating the PDF for
printing from WS7 requires my Postscript printer driver. One of the
options in its Prologue file is to set the distilled page size to half
letter page. Without turning the setting on a letter size page will be
created.
Since I now weekly will be printing brochures using the above method, I
created a custom version of my default PS printer driver which uses a
Prologue file which by default creates letter half page PDFs.
Phil
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(Rev.) Philip Griffin-Allwood, Ph.D.
Moncton, New Brunswick, Canada
grifwood@glinx.com
http://www.glinx.com/~grifwood
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Message: 2
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2006 22:02:34 -0800
From: Diana Kirk <dhkirk@thewritersplace.com>
Subject: Re: WordStar: [WS7] Acrobat Reader 8 and booklet printing
To: wordstar@wordstar2.com
Message-ID: <200612232202.34375.dhkirk@thewritersplace.com>
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Hi Phil,
This is an interesting tutorial. Thanks. I really liked
Clickbook's easy interface for printing pages in folios or
signatures, but Blue Squirrel lost me long ago when their
software became too closely tied to XP to work well on my Win98
system.
That forced me to find another way of producing pages in
signatures for books/booklets that was fairly easy to set up and
do. For folks on Linux (until Adobe releases Acrobat Reader 8 for
us), you can use psutils to do the same thing. Specifically, the
psnup and psbook commands define the number of pages in each
signature (folio - a multiple of 4), the size of the paper being
printed on (A4, Letter, Legal, and so forth), as well as the
layout of the pages on each sheet of paper (1-up, 2-up, 4-up,
etc.). The commands are really simple to use. Whether you have to
turn pages over to print the backs or if the backs are printed in
your printer is determined by if you have a printer which will
print double-sided and of course if you have it installed to do
so.
You might run an experiment using a couple of signatures of 4
pages and see what your printer will do (e.g., any WordStar
document with 5-8 pages printed to a postscript driver). You
should get blank pages to make up the difference in the second
signature if your document has at least 5 pages, but not 8.
Happy trails,
Diana
On Saturday 23 December 2006 09:05 pm, Philip Griffin-Allwood
wrote:
> When I upgraded to Acrobat Reader 8 on my WinXP Home systems, I
> noticed that one of the improvements claimed for the new
> release was booklet printing.
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Diana Kirk
The Writer's Place
530 Showers Dr., Ste. 7, MS 105
Mountain View, CA 94040-4740 USA
Phone 650-278-1278
Registered Linux User #327485
The Writer's Place, http://www.thewritersplace.com
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