Hi :) The problem is not a technical one but a people one. If you are the one doing the folding then the guides help but if it's someone else then there is a good chance they really don't give a stuff how bad it looks. In which case the lines wont help and may even add to the shoddy appearance of the end-result.
I got trapped into doing all the folding because there are only 2 of us capable of folding adequately and both of us find that doing so is actually faster. When i realised i'd got myself trapped i kept quiet about who the other good person was. Regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: webmaster-Kracked_P_P <webmas...@krackedpress.com> >To: users@global.libreoffice.org >Sent: Thursday, 21 February 2013, 18:57 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes > >On 02/21/2013 12:32 PM, steveedmonds wrote: >> >> They use a page margin of 0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between >> columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around >> them. This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option >> active that "shrinks to fit page", or similar. >> >> The margin of 0.4 inches work well for the hand folding of these 3 >> column/panel brochure/flier. I have made many brochures over the past >> year with LO using this margin setup. It might work for you. >> >> krackedpress wrote >>> Here are two brochure "templates". Since Tom had some questions about >>> margins and such for hand folded brochures, here are the templates I >>> use, or at least the "letter size" one. >>> >>> They use a page margin of 0.4 inches and a 0.8 inch margin between >>> columns, so each of the 3 panels will have a 0.4 inch margin around >>> them. This works as long as you make sure there is no printer option >>> active that "shrinks to fit page", or similar. >>> >>> The margin of 0.4 inches work well for the hand folding of these 3 >>> column/panel brochure/flier. I have made many brochures over the past >>> year with LO using this margin setup. It might work for you. >> Hi. >> I also add a fine tick line a couple of mm (1/8") long right at the edge of >> the paper in the centre of each column break, top and bottom, as folding >> guides. Really fine and if necessary gray so they can just be seen. >> Steve >> >> > >I have made some folding guides before. Use some dotted line that is >really light gray and not long. I made sure there was one on top and on >the bottom of the page so the folder could use them to line up the edge. > >For LO, I would use >Separator line >the dotted line >0.25pt width >35% >Centered >Gray 10% > >or something similar if I was printing in b&w or a color that matches >the color of the paper. > > >-- >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
