Hi Alex

> On 20 May 2018, at 08:45, Alexandre Neto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Hi Tim,
> 
> To do what you want, the only way I can imagine is creating a Layer with two 
> geometry columns for coverage. The first column would be a "normal" geometry 
> column and could be used by atlas to provide the left page iteration. The 
> second column could be stored in WKT, and using the data defined overwrite on 
> the extent options to provide the right page iteration.


Yeah I though of similar things too though I was looking more for something we 
could give to end users (i.e. something clever we could add to core to support 
producing print ready books).
> 
> The problem is that the coverage layer would need to be carefully (manually) 
> crafted to create the odd and even pages. It would need to titeBesides, for 
> the right page you would not be able to use atlas variables.
> 
> I wonder if it wouldn't be easier to create all the individual pages normally 
> using reports (to add static pages), export to PDF, and then create a booklet 
> from it. I bet there are tools for that.
> 
> For what I could gather, this kind of work is called creating a booklet, or 
> page imposition. There is a python library to work with that:
> 
> https://pypi.org/project/PdfImpose/ <https://pypi.org/project/PdfImpose/>

So maybe a plugin using pdfimpose (thanks for sharing that library, I havent 
seen it before!) might do it. I will go and check it out next weekend.

For ‘doing it in core’ I was wondering if we couldn’t have a concept of a frame 
item which is a virtual page that you can add to a layout letting you basically 
have two (or more) frames on a page side by side, with the atlas incrementing 
the currentAtlasFeature as it visits each frame.

Regards

Tim

> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Alex Neto
> 
> Tim Sutton <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> escreveu no dia 
> sábado, 19/05/2018 às 16:25:
> Hi Kurt
> 
> Thanks for your reply. Yep I have tried reports. Neither report (controlled 
> by report) or atlas (controlled by atlas) offer a way to increment the atlas 
> counter on the same layout page which sis what I basically need. If you look 
> at the image from my original post it should hopefully make it clearer what I 
> am trying to do.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Tim
> 
>> On 19 May 2018, at 14:30, Kurt Menke <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> Hi Tim
>> This sounds like what the new Reports feature was built to do. Especially 
>> with the header/footer pages and triggers for different map content. Have 
>> you tried this in Reports in 3.0?
>> Best,
>> Kurt
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