[users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
Bucking the trend to everything electronic (PDF or html or Flash or...), a client has requested printed docs for a project. Moreover, they've requested a specific, tricky page feature that I don't know how (or if) I can do in OOo Writer. If you are old enough, you might remember printed-on-paper

RE: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread Shawn Taylor
@openoffice.org Subject: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs Bucking the trend to everything electronic (PDF or html or Flash or...), a client has requested printed docs for a project. Moreover, they've requested a specific, tricky page feature that I don't know how (or if) I can do in OOo Writer. If you

Re: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread mike scott
On 14 Aug 2008 at 10:51, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: Bucking the trend to everything electronic (PDF or html or Flash or...), a client has requested printed docs for a project. Moreover, they've requested a specific, tricky page feature that I don't know how (or if) I can do in OOo Writer. If

RE: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
mike scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] came back with: [...] Has anybody done it, in OOo Writer? (bonus question How?) I'd anticipate a problem with the printing if nothing else - I'm not sure that many will print /quite/ to the edge of the paper. Within OOo it looks possible to

RE: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread mike scott
On 14 Aug 2008 at 14:02, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: ... That wasn't the part of the task that I was worried about. I was trying to figure out how to implement the automated (or even semi-automated) positioning and numbering of the bleed-blocks. I don't even remember how it was accomplished in FM

RE: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
mike scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: On 14 Aug 2008 at 14:02, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: ... That wasn't the part of the task that I was worried about. I was trying to figure out how to implement the automated (or even semi-automated) positioning and numbering of the bleed-blocks. I

Re: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/08/2008 20:13, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: mike scott [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] sez: On 14 Aug 2008 at 14:02, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: ... That wasn't the part of the task that I was worried about. I was trying to figure out how to implement the automated (or even

RE: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread McLauchlan, Kevin
Harold Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] inquired: [...] positioning and numbering of the bleed-blocks. Perhaps a dumb question - feel free to agree with me ;-) but if the *colours* of the thumb tabs are sufficiently different, at least from one to the next, is it actually necessary to have

Re: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread Harold Fuchs
On 14/08/2008 21:31, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: Harold Fuchs [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] inquired: [...] positioning and numbering of the bleed-blocks. Perhaps a dumb question - feel free to agree with me ;-) but if the *colours* of the thumb tabs are sufficiently different, at

Re: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread Michele
[snip] TWO QUESTIONS: Does anybody understand what I'm talking about? Has anybody done it, in OOo Writer? (bonus question How?) Hello Kevin, If I had to to something like this I would also probably define a frame anchored to the header and aligned to the outer margin of the page with,

Re: [users] Edge-bleed thumb-tabs

2008-08-14 Thread mike scott
On 14 Aug 2008 at 20:29, Harold Fuchs wrote: ... Perhaps a dumb question - feel free to agree with me ;-) but if the *colours* of the thumb tabs are sufficiently different, at least from one to the next, is it actually necessary to have them in different *places* down the edge? If no then