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From: david@bdt.UUCP (David Beckemeyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Qustion about Macs and Layout work
Message-ID: <328@bdt.UUCP>
Date: 4 Jun 88 06:23:00 GMT
Article-I.D.: bdt.328
Organization: Beckemeyer Development Tools, Oakland CA
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I have a stupid question about using Macs for publishing.

I have not yet seen any Mac Word Processors that know how to do page
layout for 2-up type printing automatically.   I may not be using the
correct terms, but what I mean is: say you have a long document, 50+
pages.  Your preparing the masters for a printing of a few thousand copies
of the finished document, which is a book say one half of a letter size sheet
sideways (4.75 x 8.5).   The final books are 2-sided.  The printer wants
it layed out "2-up", or two pages next to each other on a letter size
sheet.  The placement of the pages must allow for the most efficient
printing and collating.   Like when you take apart a magazine and you find
one sheet with page 70 and 99 on the front and 100 and 69 on the back.

My question is: are there any products that will do this sort of thing
automatically on the Mac?   I can't believe that I'm the only one that
uses the Mac for this sort of thing.  I realize I can manually paste
the pages in the right way using something like PageMaker, but that's
almost as hard as doing it by hand the old fashioned way.

The second question is: would anyone else find such support useful?
I see a lot of nit-picking about word processing features, but to me
this layout feature is much more worthwhile than a lot of stuff I see
talked about.
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