At 18:12 17/10/2013 -0400, David L Babcock wrote:
On 10/17/2013 12:53 PM, Brian Barker wrote:
At 12:18 17/10/2013 -0400, David L Babcock wrote:
I needed a doc to generate pages for a small 5-hole notebook/binder.
I fit 2 pages per sheet but then needed outlines for the cutting
out. The outline graphic also had "dots" to mark where the 10
holes needed to be punched. Obviously to avoid two-pass printing,
had to use frames and/or a background image.
It was hell. But I got it working. Long enough ago that
particulars escape me. I do remember that the two little "pages"
were side by side, that "newspaper columns" were used. And that
adding text would properly move lines to the second little page,
But NOT to the following real (8.5x11) page. Sorry don't remember
if the final product used frames. (I think it did, and that's what
broke line-moving).
Not asking for solutions, ...
If you do want to recreate this (or if others do so), your use of
frames does not need to "break line-moving". Using *linked*
frames, you can preserve the natural flow of text from frame to
frame - and from a frame on one page to a frame on another. See
"frames;linking" in the help text.
Ahh!
Thank you.
It occurs to me that newspaper columns, and side-by-side, were not
needed, if I gotten the frames right. No? Would have been much
less picky-picky formatting.
Well, yes: the two pages on each sheet could also be linked frames,
with many frames linked in a chain across several pages.
Brian Barker
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