On Dec 16, 2004, at 10:05 PM, Nick Lidakis wrote:
Would it be possible to use Lyx for the typesetting, and printing the booklet in 133mm x 85mm dimensions with the text still being legible? I was hoping to be able to print four pages per letter size paper and using a paper cutter to trim the paper, and then finally arrange the booklet and then staple bind it.
Yes. Best to set up a document layout at that size (use Memoir or the geometry package) though. Shrinking your output is a mug's game.
Are there any recommendations for someone trying to print a booklet in Linux of such small dimensions?
Problems with using a laser:
- durability of the print --- lasers aren't great on this score
- duplexing --- this will ruin a cartridge if the printer isn't designed for it.
How many pages will this be? If it's not too many pages (and you don't mind some handwork) you could use a Chinese-Japanese-Korean stab-binding technique which would allow you to print on only one side of the paper and get two-sided pages.
If it's just eight pages you could do a ``stroke'' book if you can print to large enough paper --- see the TeX Showcase or my portfolio for a (small) example: http://www.tug.org/texshowcase or http://members.aol.com/willadams --- you want the ``One Typeface: many fonts'' booklet. I posted updated LaTeX source for this to the XeTeX mailing list recently.
Design / print at 100% to create a .pdf and if possible entrust the printing, folding and binding to a print shop w/ imposition software which handles creep and bottling.
If not, fold up a dummy and measure it to work out how much you need to adjust, then use something like the latex package pdfpages to handle the imposition.
William
-- William Adams, publishing specialist voice - 717-731-6707 | Fax - 717-731-6708 www.atlis.com
