4-up booklets?

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri May 23, 2003 9:28 am

Are there plans to add booklets with 4 pages per sheet side to the existing printing option of booklets with 2 pages per sheet side?

Post by **admin** » Fri May 23, 2003 12:11 pm

I personally never heard about such booklets. I hardly imagine how such a booklet could be folded.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri May 23, 2003 12:19 pm

With 4-up booklets the individual sheets of paper are not folded but are cut into small sheets the size of a paperback/pocketbook when using Legal size paper. The resultant pages are glued together using a neoprene contact cement and a book press, this results in a homemade book similar to a paperback book one buys at a store.

Post by **admin** » Fri May 23, 2003 1:56 pm

You could simply place paper sheets of the desired (smaller) size to the input tray of your printer, then print booklets from Atlantis with scaling to this small paper size.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Fri May 30, 2003 9:40 am

I tried printing directly, 2 sided, on smaller paper, 4.25 inches wide, and it works most of the time. Sometimes the paper feed on my printer, HP Deskjet 540, skews the print. This doesn't happen with regular letter paper. I would like to print on the top half of an 8.5 inch wide paper to avoid this. I tried to set up a custom paper size to do this with a width of 8.25 inches, left margin 0.25 inches, right margin 4.5 inches, and Mirror margins checked but I was unable to run the right margin all the way up to 4.5 inches using the up arrow. What is the reason I could not get the right margin up to 4.5 inches? Is there another way I can do double sided printing on 8.5 inch wide paper with the document being printed having a custom width of 4.25 inches and mirrored margins?

Post by **admin** » Fri May 30, 2003 3:50 pm

4.5" is a too big margin for this paper width. It is not supported by Atlantis. At least yet.
I personally have no suggestions for your situation.

BuffyBot · Post by **BuffyBot** » Fri May 30, 2003 4:13 pm

I may be totally confused about what you are trying to do...

But you might try using a "horizontal page layout" and use Atlantis "column" feature (with 2 columns), this might let you mimic what you are talking about. By adjusting the width of the columns vs. the column spacing vs. the actual page margins.

Atlantis allows for some very wide column spacing.

Alan · Post by **Alan** » Tue Jun 03, 2003 9:51 am

I don't think columns would work as two sided printing of two column text requires one side to have page 2 on the left and page 3 on the right with the other side to have page 1 on the right and page 4 on the left.

Prince · Post by **Prince** » Fri Sep 05, 2003 2:43 am

I have to say that I think this function to be very useful. I use it to print chapters from e-books (doc-format) to read them at home and also to create little manuals for products.

BuffyBot · Post by **BuffyBot** » Sat Sep 06, 2003 6:52 am

arr242 wrote: I don't think columns would work as two sided printing of two column text requires one side to have page 2 on the left and page 3 on the right with the other side to have page 1 on the right and page 4 on the left.

Actually, this would work.

1. Get your two pages typed with all 4 columns (horizontal layout w/ wide spacing).
2. Cut/paste column 4 into the top of column 1.
3. Then insert a column break after column 4. This will push all the other columns over and re-order them accordingly: [4,1] [2,3]
4. Then use two-sided printing. You will be able to fold this when done.

Not what arr242 was originally asking for... but this might be useful if someone needed to use Atlantis to make a handout, or a church bulletin, a cafe menu, pricelist, etc.