Re: Printing a booklet in sections

You might consider getting FinePrint (www.fineprint.com), which -- along 
with saving money on paper and toner/ink -- can print booklets in 
sections, both sides of the page, and take care of all page numbering. 
It's extremely easy to use, too.

Moreover, you do not need to subdivide WP pages, etc., since whatever 
you send to FinePrint (it's a printer driver you'll see in File>Print) 
does not need to be reformatted, resized, etc. What you see in WP will 
be what is printed -- but reduced (for booklets) and properly collated 
during the print run.

It works in any Windows program to print 1-up, 2-up, 4-up, etc. Just 
print to it from inside your program and select the layout and options 
from the dialog window that pops up. This feature is also useful to see 
what you will get without actually printing anything; this has saved me 
reams of paper over the years. (You can even save the "job" to print
out 
later.)

I've used it for years and would not be without it. (Just a satisfied 
customer.)


Barry

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Gruys-Faasen wrote:
> Thank you. I have not yet tried, but in my original question I mentioned
the 
> undesirable possibility of "splitting the document in 40-page parts,
and 
> having to redo the page and line numbering as well as various other 
> formatting for every part".
> 
> But if there is no other way, I shall have totake the trouble...
> 
> By the way, MSWord's booklet format (Word 2003) is in almost every respect
a 
> disaster; it accepts in practice only typing from scratch or importing 
> completely unformatted (ASCI/ANSI) text, or you get stuck with messages
like 
> "Paragraph margins don't fit page margins" and the like, without
any option 
> to correct things at that stage. And OpenOffice has not even a booklet 
> format; it has a trick that allows, during printing, reducing the pages and

> assembling them in the right order, but at least it works every time, if at

> times with somewhat unexpected results (a 10 point size now looks like 6 
> point, etc.).
> 
> JAG 
> 
> 
> 

Be sure to check their site for a free update. An earlier version had a 
problem with displaying WPX3 pages, but they fixed that.

I use FP as my default "printer."

Barry

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Gruys-Faasen wrote:
> Thank you, Barry. I think I have FinePrint somewhere about, and I shall try

> it.
> 
> My main purpose for asking this question was, to be sure there is no WP 
> solution for what I would like to do. After your and Charles' reply, I'm 
> almost sure there isn't. Bother.
> 
> Thanks to both of you for implicitly making this clear.
> 
> JAG
> 
> 
> 
> 

I have a document containing a long narrative poem and consisting of some 
200 pages of numbered lines, that I have formatted as a booklet (with 
divided pages), and that I want to print in sections of about 40 pages or 10 
leaves, because that is about the maximum that can easily be fitted with 
staples, folded, and having its fore-edge cut.

But when I give the command "print pp. 1-40", WP prints pp. 1-2, 3-4
(etc. 
through 39-40) on one side of the paper, but pp. 199-200, 197-198 (etc. 
through 161-162) on the other.

Printing a selection of p. 1-40 does simply not print as a booklet.

Do I miss something? Does anyone know of a way or a trick of accomplishing 
what I want? Except for splitting the document in 40-page parts, and having 
to redo the page and line numbering as well as various other formatting for 
every part?

I might add (and I am sorry for having to do so) that both MSWord and 
OpenOffice print sections of what they call a brochure correctly.

Thanks in advance for any thoughts.

JAG

JAG,

Have you tried creating files corresponding to your sections?  You can 
set the initial page number for each section, and then print each as a 
booklet, as usual.



Gruys-Faasen wrote:
> I have a document containing a long narrative poem and consisting of some 
> 200 pages of numbered lines, that I have formatted as a booklet (with 
> divided pages), and that I want to print in sections of about 40 pages or
10 
> leaves, because that is about the maximum that can easily be fitted with 
> staples, folded, and having its fore-edge cut.
> 
> But when I give the command "print pp. 1-40", WP prints pp. 1-2,
3-4 (etc. 
> through 39-40) on one side of the paper, but pp. 199-200, 197-198 (etc. 
> through 161-162) on the other.
> 
> Printing a selection of p. 1-40 does simply not print as a booklet.
> 
> Do I miss something? Does anyone know of a way or a trick of accomplishing

> what I want? Except for splitting the document in 40-page parts, and having

> to redo the page and line numbering as well as various other formatting for

> every part?
> 
> I might add (and I am sorry for having to do so) that both MSWord and 
> OpenOffice print sections of what they call a brochure correctly.
> 
> Thanks in advance for any thoughts.
> 
> JAG
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 

-- 
  Charles Rossiter
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Thank you. I have not yet tried, but in my original question I mentioned the 
undesirable possibility of "splitting the document in 40-page parts, and 
having to redo the page and line numbering as well as various other 
formatting for every part".

But if there is no other way, I shall have totake the trouble...

By the way, MSWord's booklet format (Word 2003) is in almost every respect a 
disaster; it accepts in practice only typing from scratch or importing 
completely unformatted (ASCI/ANSI) text, or you get stuck with messages like 
"Paragraph margins don't fit page margins" and the like, without any
option 
to correct things at that stage. And OpenOffice has not even a booklet 
format; it has a trick that allows, during printing, reducing the pages and 
assembling them in the right order, but at least it works every time, if at 
times with somewhat unexpected results (a 10 point size now looks like 6 
point, etc.).

JAG