On 08/14/2008 07:51 AM, 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. >
Dejavu... http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?list=users&msgNo=9740 FrameMaker (5.5) had (has) a specific template for this: http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=222 BkStyle5: This family is the same as BkStyle2, but this version shows how to create running thumb tabs on recto pages. You can easily copy the technique to other templates after you see how it's done here. Templates are here if you still have an old version: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/framemaker/win/5.x/templates/tempac1.exe index is here: ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/framemaker/win/5.x/templates/ [ftp://ftp.adobe.com/pub/adobe/framemaker/win/ for other] As for doing it in OOo, I'm not sure, but suspect that you could do this with frames as other have suggested. BkStyle5 (FM) runs through how to use the features in FM. I'd guess that Scribus might also have something similar but haven't looked. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
