Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.

Hi :)
So they are printing to A3 rather than A4.  Those numbers are rather familiar!  16, 32, 64.  They 
turn up all over the place :)
Regards from
Tom :)

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From: webmaster for Kracked Press Productions <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012, 21:44

On 01/18/2012 05:52 AM, Sylvia Schmidt wrote:
> Okay, from the top: Yes, I'm using linux -> Ubuntu 11.10.
>
> I've talked to the printing company and they said it should be "real" blank pages as the backs. I 
> do not know why exactly, it has something to do with the binding and the 4 pages printout used. 
> (There aren't that many companies around here that will print and bind books as hardcovers with 
> only three copies. If the company wasn't recommended by my university I probably would have 
> chosen a different one.)
>
> I even know how to get that using Indesign, but Indesign is a real pain as a 'writing tool'. So I 
> thought I'd try something else... I didn't even think of changing the finished pdf, but that's a 
> great idea! I'll look into your suggestions. Thank you for that.

They print a 4 pages on each side of the sheet of paper and use the equipment to fold, cut, and 
bind them to make the physical document/book/etc.  Modern hardcover novels, using the large print 
companies, end up printing 16 pages per side of a sheet-block on a web-press.  Then these sheets 
are printed on each side [32 page faces at a time] then take these folded groups and have a machine 
merge each 32-page group together to make the 400 - 1000 page hardcover, and even mass-paperback 
books.  This is a standard printing method, instead of printing a single 2 sided page at a time.  
It is easier to bind the 32-page group than the single double-sided pages as well.  Easier for 
printing and cost less in the long run.

That is why the blank pages; to fill the rest of the large size, multi-page, sheets.  They want the 
author to do this, not their people.  They do not want to edit your PDF file.  Print-on-demand 
companies, like Lulu.com are do the same, but to a lesser degree.



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