On Tue, 2005-07-26 at 13:38 +0530, dipankar das wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 09:52, Jonathon Coombes wrote: > > On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:12 +0100, CPHennessy wrote: > > SNIP! > > > > > Howard, > > > Please re-read what the original poster was looking for : > > > on page 1 he wanted "page 1" (e.g. the cover page) > > > on page 2 he wanted "page 2" > > > on page 3 he wanted "page 2" > > > on page 4 he wanted "page 3" > > > on page 5 he wanted "page 3" > > > on page 6 he wanted "page 4" > > > on page 7 he wanted "page 4" > > > > > > To do "normal" page number is quite easy, but what this user wants is a > > > bit more difficult but not impossible. Of course I could have > > > misunderstood the poster completely. > > > > The only way I could see you doing this "easily" would be with something > > like a user-defined field. > > > > Regards > > Jonathon > > This is a major problem in Calcutta's commercial printing. They go on using > Adobe (R) Pagemaker only for this reason in place of say OOo or MSW. In > ninety percent or more of the print jobs, two subsequent pages come on the > same A4 sheet, so what they do is set the two pages on the same page, in > landscape, and then use two page-number fields on the right page and left > page, and two sets of headers, if needed. This saves their block making cost, > one per page. This cannot be done in OOo or MSW, AFAIK. This is a necessity > if OOo needs penetrate in the commercial sector. > > So, dear Coombes, it will be a lot of help if you suggest how to use > user-defined fields to do this. Thanks in advance.
I have aleady suggested one way, here is another. Build your page from frames in landscape. For hints see one of the Newsletter templates or the http://documentation.openoffice.org/manuals/OOo1.x.x/printed.html User GUide. -- PLEASE KEEP MESSAGES ON THE LIST. OpenOffice.org Documentation Co-Lead http://documentation.openoffice.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
