Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes

Hi :)
The problem is not a technical one but a people one.  If you are the one doing the folding then the 
guides help but if it's someone else then there is a good chance they really don't give a stuff how 
bad it looks.  In which case the lines wont help and may even add to the shoddy appearance of the 
end-result.  

I got trapped into doing all the folding because there are only 2 of us capable of folding 
adequately and both of us find that doing so is actually faster.  When i realised i'd got myself 
trapped i kept quiet about who the other good person was.  

Regards from
Tom :)  






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> From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmaster@krackedpress.com>
> To: users@global.libreoffice.org 
> Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 18:57
> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes
>
> On 02/21/2013 12:32 PM, steveedmonds wrote:
> > They use a page margin of  0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between
> > columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around
> > them.  This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option
> > active that "shrinks to fit page", or similar.
> >
> > The margin of 0.4 inches work well for the hand folding of these 3
> > column/panel brochure/flier.  I have made many brochures over the past
> > year with LO using this margin setup.  It might work for you.
> >
> > krackedpress wrote
> > > Here are two brochure "templates".  Since Tom had some questions about
> > > margins and such for hand folded brochures, here are the templates I
> > > use, or at least the "letter size" one.
> > >
> > > They use a page margin of  0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between
> > > columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around
> > > them.  This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option
> > > active that "shrinks to fit page", or similar.
> > >
> > > The margin of 0.4 inches work well for the hand folding of these 3
> > > column/panel brochure/flier.  I have made many brochures over the past
> > > year with LO using this margin setup.  It might work for you.
> > Hi.
> > I also add a fine tick line a couple of mm (1/8") long  right at the edge of
> > the paper  in the centre of each column break, top and bottom, as folding
> > guides. Really fine and if necessary gray so they can just be seen.
> > Steve
>
> I have made some folding guides before.  Use some dotted line that is 
> really light gray and not long.  I made sure there was one on top and on 
> the bottom of the page so the folder could use them to line up the edge.
>
> For LO, I would use
> Separator line
> the dotted line
> 0.25pt width
> 35%
> Centered
> Gray 10%
>
> or something similar if I was printing in b&w or a color that matches 
> the color of the paper.
>
>
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