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

Hi :)
In England we have a saying 
"The grass is always greener on the other side" 
as it's usually easier to spot the flaws in whatever is closest to you.  It's not always true of 
course.  I think it goes well with the idea that before criticising someone you should "walk a mile 
in their shoes".  
Regards from
Tom :)


--- On Wed, 18/1/12, Sylvia Schmidt <sylvia.schmidt@jielo.de> wrote:

From: Sylvia Schmidt <sylvia.schmidt@jielo.de>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count.
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012, 22:30

Okay, I found a way that works for me:
I'll use a single side layout, make a pdf from it and then I'll create a pdf with only blank pages, 
merge these two pdfs and rearrange the pages - page1 of pdf1 followed by page1 of pdf2. Or 
something along those lines - I found a few pdf-editing-tools that have some great capabilities.

It probably isn't an elegant solution but it works.

Thank you all for your input!

---
To Miroslaw:

Well, Germany isn't the land of milk and honey.

I'm getting my master's degree at a rather small university (Fachhochschule) in a very rural area 
because here there are only up to 15 people in one course - sometimes as little as fife people. At 
the bigger universities you have more than one copyshop (which is what we've got here and it 
doesn't bind books) and usually a few 'full' printing companies nearby.

But we have computer pools which we can access 24/7 where InDesign (and the rest of the Adobe 
Suite) is available. And I could send a DOC but I don't like having almost no say on how the final 
print looks. (I do not know how that would impact the price).

On 18.01.2012 16:36, Mirosław Zalewski wrote:
> On 18/01/2012 at 11:52, Sylvia Schmidt<sylvia.schmidt@jielo.de>  wrote:
>
> > 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.
> On the side of main topic:
> I find it quite surprising. If that printing company is recommended by your
> university, perhaps there is some kind of agreement between company and
> university, and perhaps many students print their thesis in that printing
> company. And yet they are unprepared for continuously numbered PDFs that have
> to be printed one-sided? I doubt that MS Word makes solving your task any
> easier than LO Writer.
>
> Or maybe most students send .doc file to printing company? But that should be
> more expensive, since additional editorial work has to be done (beside
> printing).
>
> Or maybe most students prepare their thesis in Adobe InDesign (which, as you
> say, is capable of solving your task)? I find it quite hard to belive, since
> InDesign is really expensive software. But maybe your university has special
> agreement with Adobe that students can download and use InDesign for free?
>
> Going further with offtopic, in Poland there are many small printing companies
> in close neighborhood of each university building. These companies usually
> have few photocopiers, few printers and one or two computers. You can print
> and bind your thesis in almost every of these companies, although only in
> preset hard cover (they usually say "Master thesis" or something similar on
> front cover and they look like [1]). So, if you would like to have your name
> or title of your thesis on your cover, it would be harder and more expensive.
>
> Here in Poland we are used to believe that Germany is land of milk and honey.
> I find it surprising that - at least in that area - in Poland we are apparently
> in better position than you are. Having so many printing companies around, no
> one would care about inserting real blank pages into documents - they would
> just go to another company, the one that has no such prerequirements about
> documents.
>
> [1] http://www.origo.poznan.pl/Graphics/products_76ba860c-6c47-4210-
> b5ad-28198cf33cb2_1.jpg
> (short link: http://bit.ly/A56Nqh )
>
> Sorry about offtopic, I just wanted to share some of my thoughts :) .


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