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Phil1923 Posted: Tue, Jul 29 2008 18:45

 

Hi Everybody,
    I frequently make up small booklets for my senior citizen club.  It's nothing complicated.  They consist of anywhere from 3 to 10 pages.  For convenience, I use 8.5 x 11 paper.  Each sheet is folded in half. Then the folded sheets are placed one within the other in booklet form.
    I have been using Microsoft Publisher to do this for the last 15 years.  I use it for two reasons.
1.  It has a "Fold Option".  I guess that it is called Imposition in the printing industry.  It is very convenient because I don't have to calculate how to lay anything out on both sides of three 8.5 x 11 sheets.  All that I see on the monitor is a succession of pages.  The program imposes everything for me.
3. Text automatically flows from one  page to another.
2.  I can insert both vector and/or raster images.
3. The cost of the program per year is trivial.  I am still using Publisher 97.
QUESTION:  Can this process be done in the Corel Graphics Suite.
Phil  
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Yes--and ten thousand times better than so-called Publisher.

Phil1923 wrote:

 

Hi Everybody,
    I frequently make up small booklets for my senior citizen club.  It's nothing complicated.  They consist of anywhere from 3 to 10 pages.  For convenience, I use 8.5 x 11 paper.  Each sheet is folded in half. Then the folded sheets are placed one within the other in booklet form.
    I have been using Microsoft Publisher to do this for the last 15 years.  I use it for two reasons.
1.  It has a "Fold Option".  I guess that it is called Imposition in the printing industry.  It is very convenient because I don't have to calculate how to lay anything out on both sides of three 8.5 x 11 sheets.  All that I see on the monitor is a succession of pages.  The program imposes everything for me.
3. Text automatically flows from one  page to another.
2.  I can insert both vector and/or raster images.
3. The cost of the program per year is trivial.  I am still using Publisher 97.
QUESTION:  Can this process be done in the Corel Graphics Suite.
Phil  


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Paul McGee St. Albert, Alberta, Canada

 Hi Paul,

    Thanks.  Glad to hear it.

     How do I go about learning how to do it.  It is certainly not in the manual.

Phil

  

 Hi Paul,

Another question.

 How did you get single line spacing in this confusing forum.

Phil

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St. Albert Alberta Canada
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In Corel Draw, create pages. Define each page to be the size of pages as seen in the book(let). IOW if it is to be one North American "letter", define your page as 5.5 x 8.5.

Open print preview. Go to the imposition icon. Select from the impressive list of canned formats or make your own.

(Would include an illustration but that would both of us go the "forum" route instead of NNTP.)

Done!

Phil1923 wrote:

 Hi Paul,

    Thanks.  Glad to hear it.

     How do I go about learning how to do it.  It is certainly not in the manual.

Phil

  



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Paul McGee St. Albert, Alberta, Canada

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I posted via NNTP, in HTML having set Thunderbird to the appropriate font.

(Many of the postings come in in such tiny type that these 70 year old eyes just skip them altogether when using NNTP. Yours are almost in that category!) OTOH mine come out two large for the 16 year old crowd.)

Phil1923 wrote:

 Hi Paul,

Another question.

 How did you get single line spacing in this confusing forum.

Phil



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Paul McGee St. Albert, Alberta, Canada

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I should also add be sure to check/uncheck the "fold" and/or "cut" icons if you need fold/cut marks. But to get them you need oversize paper (it's got to have somewhere to put them!)

Paul McGee St. Albert, Alberta, Canada

 Hi Paul,

1.  Thanks again.

2.   My eyes are 85 years old.  I need a magnifying glass to read my own posts.

Phil

PS:  I hate this forum format.   

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Phil, when you want single line spacing, hit Shift+Enter at the same time :)

You can increase font sizing from within your browser (assuming that youre using IE7) by clicking on "page", then going to "text size" and selecting "larger" or "largest". This should help somewhat.

Andy

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Hi again, Paul. You can increase the size of your own text, choosing a bigger style in the Paragrapf rollover, the second option when you write a post. Also, you can increase and decrease the global size by pressing Ctrl and + or Ctrl and - in your browser

 

Ariel Garaza Díaz

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Paul McGee:
In Corel Draw, create pages. Define each page to be the size of pages as seen in the book(let). IOW if it is to be one North American "letter", define your page as 5.5 x 8.5.

Open print preview. Go to the imposition icon. Select from the impressive list of canned formats or make your own.

That is only in Preview, right?

How do I view both left and right page at the same time?

When printing, how to print accordingly?
For example, if I have 8 A5 pages, do I print on A5 paper or A4?

 

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1 -  create a new document, A4 horizontal

2 - double click on thr page border, go to Options / Document / Page / Layout and choose Booklet and Facing Pages. Press enter, and you will have an A5 vertical

3 - insert all pages that you need, and you can do your work

4 - Go to Print Preview... ready! you don't need anymore

Ariel Garaza Díaz

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Thanks Ariel !

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