On 14 Aug 2008 at 10:51, McLauchlan, Kevin wrote: > Bucking the trend to everything electronic (PDF or html or Flash or...), > a client has requested printed docs for a project. Moreover, they've > requested a specific, tricky page feature that I don't know how (or if) > I can do in OOo Writer. > > If you are old enough, you might remember printed-on-paper technical > books... :-) > Some of them had color blocks printed right to the outside edge of the > pages, so that they'd show (vaguely) when you viewed the closed book > from the side, or when you had the book open with a mass of pages on one > side of the spine. The color blocks were maybe a centimeter in height, > and their position changed from chapter to chapter. So, viewed from the > edge of the closed book, you'd see staggered steps from the beginning of > the book to end. > >... > > TWO QUESTIONS: > > Does anybody understand what I'm talking about?
Yes. > Has anybody done it, in OOo Writer? (bonus question.... How?) I'd anticipate a problem with the printing if nothing else - I'm not sure that many will print /quite/ to the edge of the paper. Within OOo it looks possible to manually put, say, a filled rectangle outside the "word" margin and reaching page edge, and page preview shows just this -- however printing even to a pdf pseudo-printer loses the very edge of the objects to a printer margin, rather defeating the point. I suspect commercial examples have been cut after printing. -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
