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From: drg@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu (David Gutierrez)
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Subject: Re: printing folios for making half-sized brochures
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Date: 16 Apr 91 16:06:59 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.191842.1777@cs.ucla.edu> flowers@lanai.cs.ucla.edu 
(Margot Flowers) writes:
> I'm looking for a program that will print two half pages onto each
> side of a full-sized page so that the resulting bundle can be folded
> in the middle and be stapled down the spine to make a 5.5x8.5inch
> brochure. 

This may not be the kind of response you're looking for, but FullWrite 
Professional will handle this pretty easily. You just create your document 
normally in portrait orientation and choose the Print command. In the 
Print dialog box, click the check boxes for "Print Two-up", "Print 
Collated" and "Print Both Sides". (Two-up printing only works with 
PostScript printers.) FullWrite will print half of your pages, reduced to 
66% and printed two-up per side. It will then print a sheet of 
instructions telling you how to take the output pages and re-insert them 
into the laser printer. When you have done this, FullWrite will print the 
remaining pages. You end up with a stack that you can fold in half and 
staple. There's your book!

Two things to watch for:

1) You need to allow a gutter for folding. Go to the Format menu and 
choose Layout. In the dialog box that appears, click the box that says 
"Mirror Left/Right Page Layout" and drag the margins in the page icon (or 
type values) to allow a gutter.

2) The instructions that are printed to show you how to re-insert the 
output pages in the laser printer may not be *quite* right. I had to do it 
twice to adjust for the paper path on my QMS PS-1500. However, if you're 
using a LaserWriter or other common printer you should have no trouble.

David Gutierrez
drg@mdaali.mda.uth.tmc.edu

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