Thanks for the many suggestions (everyone)!! I already own a (licensed) copy of Acrobat Distiller (and there is always the FLOSS tool ps2pdf if I copy postscript output to Linux/FreeBSD).
It looks like I have a multitude of options now. Thank you very much for your input! Weldon On Thu, 20 May 2004, Johannes Gebauer wrote: > On 20.05.2004 12:26 Uhr, Noel Stoutenburg wrote > > > Because of the fact that sometimes the page printed on one end of the > > sheet is in a different file from the page printed on the other side. > > To explicate, if the first page is in file 1, and the last page is in > > file 7, and you're going to print the last page on the left side of the > > sheet, and the first on the right (so as to be in proper position on the > > outside when the page is folded), if you don't consolidate all of the > > files into a single file, and unless there is an undocumented feature in > > Finale, providing the capability of print one page from each of two > > different files in "2-up printing", you have to pass the page through > > the printer twice, the first time printing one page from one file, the > > second printing the desired page from the other. > > Sorry, I missed that bit. > > There is a way to do this quite easily in OS X. > > 1) Make PDF files of all the files that need to be combined. (It is a good > idea to do this by first printing to a PS file, and then opening that in > Preview, the PDFs are better quality) > > 2) Get a shareware called CombinePDFs to combine the files in the right > order. > > 3) Get a Shareware called Booklightening, and run the resulting file through > it. Voila, you have a booklet. Booklightening does cost some money ($49). I > believe CombinePDFs is free. Both are available from versiontracker. > > It's very simple to use these two programs. > > Johannes > -- Weldon Whipple [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
