Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
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
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
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
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
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
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
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. There is a generalized version of psnup called pstops (it is part of the same package -- psutils), which is real PITA to use (because it is really complicated), but I guess you can persuade to do basically anything. Read pstops(1). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
Nick Lidakis wrote:
SNIP
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.
Are there any recommendations for someone trying to print a booklet in
Linux of such small dimensions?
Any comment would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick Lidakis EMT-P
If you don't mind wasting a bit of paper (or if you can turn and send it
back through to get the other half) you might do the following:
Layout - Document
Document tab - set Columns to 2
Paper tab - Dimensions size: - Custom set height to 1/2 the A4 paper
height (I have forgotten what that is)
Paper tab - set appropriate Custom margins
Instead of changing the paper size you might also look into preview the
output and place a [small|med|big]skip { Layout - Paragraph, Vertical
space: } at the middle of the page in both columns (after you have typed the
text to final).
It's a kludge, but I is what I thought of quickly.
Another option would be to output to postscript and use a program like mpage
to print it at 4 pages per page.
Good luck
--
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
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. There is a generalized version of psnup called pstops (it is part of the same package -- psutils), which is real PITA to use (because it is really complicated), but I guess you can persuade to do basically anything. Read pstops(1). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
Nick Lidakis wrote:
SNIP
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.
Are there any recommendations for someone trying to print a booklet in
Linux of such small dimensions?
Any comment would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Nick Lidakis EMT-P
If you don't mind wasting a bit of paper (or if you can turn and send it
back through to get the other half) you might do the following:
Layout - Document
Document tab - set Columns to 2
Paper tab - Dimensions size: - Custom set height to 1/2 the A4 paper
height (I have forgotten what that is)
Paper tab - set appropriate Custom margins
Instead of changing the paper size you might also look into preview the
output and place a [small|med|big]skip { Layout - Paragraph, Vertical
space: } at the middle of the page in both columns (after you have typed the
text to final).
It's a kludge, but I is what I thought of quickly.
Another option would be to output to postscript and use a program like mpage
to print it at 4 pages per page.
Good luck
--
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
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. There is a generalized version of psnup called pstops (it is part of the same package -- psutils), which is real PITA to use (because it is really complicated), but I guess you can persuade to do basically anything. Read pstops(1). Matej -- Matej Cepl, http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC 138 Highland Ave. #10, Somerville, Ma 02143, (617) 623-1488 We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately. -- Benjamin Franklin
Re: Printing a Pocket Paramedic Protocol Booklet: Is Lyx the right tool?
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.
>
> Are there any recommendations for someone trying to print a booklet in
> Linux of such small dimensions?
>
> Any comment would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nick Lidakis EMT-P
If you don't mind wasting a bit of paper (or if you can turn and send it
back through to get the other half) you might do the following:
Layout -> Document
Document tab -> set Columns to 2
Paper tab -> Dimensions size: -> Custom & set height to 1/2 the A4 paper
height (I have forgotten what that is)
Paper tab -> set appropriate Custom margins
Instead of changing the paper size you might also look into preview the
output and place a [small|med|big]skip { Layout -> Paragraph, Vertical
space: } at the middle of the page in both columns (after you have typed the
text to final).
It's a kludge, but I is what I thought of quickly.
Another option would be to output to postscript and use a program like mpage
to print it at 4 pages per page.
Good luck
--
Todd Denniston
Crane Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC Crane)
Harnessing the Power of Technology for the Warfighter
