Hi everyone I've used LyX from the beginning and love it!
But in the last few weeks I've been inspired to raise my horizons and print a book sized book. In the past I have printed all my LyX documents on A4 paper. But for a book that is far too big. So I decided to try for 9" x 6" or 225mm x 160mm which seem to be the sizes offered by local Print on Demand businesses in New Zealand. I would welcome advice by people who have used LyX to produce PDF files for printing and binding by POD businesses. My difficulty is that, having set the page size in LyX, it shows up fine in xpdf but seems to be scaled to A4 when viewed by Acrobat Reader (which I suspect will be what the POD company will use). When I attempt to print it on my home printer (with A4 paper in the tray), the pages are the right size but appear alternatively at the top left and the botton right of the A4 sheets - resulting in sheets that cannot be trimmed to size without cropping off the content of one face of the sheet. There are bound to be tricks to this, both for printing at home so that I can guillotine the A4 down to the size I want, and for submitting a PDF file which a Digital Printing business can use directly. regards John O'Gorman
