Hi :) In England we have a saying "The grass is always greener on the other side" as it's usually easier to spot the flaws in whatever is closest to you. It's not always true of course. I think it goes well with the idea that before criticising someone you should "walk a mile in their shoes". Regards from Tom :)
--- On Wed, 18/1/12, Sylvia Schmidt <sylvia.schm...@jielo.de> wrote: From: Sylvia Schmidt <sylvia.schm...@jielo.de> Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Question about Writer - pages and page count. To: users@global.libreoffice.org Date: Wednesday, 18 January, 2012, 22:30 Okay, I found a way that works for me: I'll use a single side layout, make a pdf from it and then I'll create a pdf with only blank pages, merge these two pdfs and rearrange the pages - page1 of pdf1 followed by page1 of pdf2. Or something along those lines - I found a few pdf-editing-tools that have some great capabilities. It probably isn't an elegant solution but it works. Thank you all for your input! --- To Miroslaw: Well, Germany isn't the land of milk and honey. I'm getting my master's degree at a rather small university (Fachhochschule) in a very rural area because here there are only up to 15 people in one course - sometimes as little as fife people. At the bigger universities you have more than one copyshop (which is what we've got here and it doesn't bind books) and usually a few 'full' printing companies nearby. But we have computer pools which we can access 24/7 where InDesign (and the rest of the Adobe Suite) is available. And I could send a DOC but I don't like having almost no say on how the final print looks. (I do not know how that would impact the price). On 18.01.2012 16:36, Mirosław Zalewski wrote: > On 18/01/2012 at 11:52, Sylvia Schmidt<sylvia.schm...@jielo.de> wrote: > >> There aren't that >> many companies around here that will print and bind books as hardcovers >> with only three copies. If the company wasn't recommended by my >> university I probably would have chosen a different one. > On the side of main topic: > I find it quite surprising. If that printing company is recommended by your > university, perhaps there is some kind of agreement between company and > university, and perhaps many students print their thesis in that printing > company. And yet they are unprepared for continuously numbered PDFs that have > to be printed one-sided? I doubt that MS Word makes solving your task any > easier than LO Writer. > > Or maybe most students send .doc file to printing company? But that should be > more expensive, since additional editorial work has to be done (beside > printing). > > Or maybe most students prepare their thesis in Adobe InDesign (which, as you > say, is capable of solving your task)? I find it quite hard to belive, since > InDesign is really expensive software. But maybe your university has special > agreement with Adobe that students can download and use InDesign for free? > > Going further with offtopic, in Poland there are many small printing companies > in close neighborhood of each university building. These companies usually > have few photocopiers, few printers and one or two computers. You can print > and bind your thesis in almost every of these companies, although only in > preset hard cover (they usually say "Master thesis" or something similar on > front cover and they look like [1]). So, if you would like to have your name > or title of your thesis on your cover, it would be harder and more expensive. > > Here in Poland we are used to believe that Germany is land of milk and honey. > I find it surprising that - at least in that area - in Poland we are > apparently > in better position than you are. Having so many printing companies around, no > one would care about inserting real blank pages into documents - they would > just go to another company, the one that has no such prerequirements about > documents. > > [1] http://www.origo.poznan.pl/Graphics/products_76ba860c-6c47-4210- > b5ad-28198cf33cb2_1.jpg > (short link: http://bit.ly/A56Nqh ) > > Sorry about offtopic, I just wanted to share some of my thoughts :) . -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
