alex@grian.cps.altadena.ca.us (Alex Pournelle) (02/06/90)
Just to show that I'm not a complete Mac hater, which doubtless the whole Mac religious community has decided after my last posting, here's a (shudder) useful one. thompson@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes: >Even after wading through what seemed like most of the manual for Pagemaker > 3.01, I still can't seem to find a way to print two *logical* pages on > one *physical* page. Specifically, I'm printing a newsletter, and the page > size is half of an 8.5 x 11 page, so we can fold them in half and make Hoo hah--a kindred soul! I did the printing for a convention program book this way (72 pages, with cover--shame the printer was such an idiot) and ran into the same prob. After many discussions, I found the answer seems to be--no. There is a new program, called PostStrip, which showed at the Big Mac Show in Boston. It'll strip pages in duplex form as you want--IT EVEN ADJUSTS FOR STAPLE CREEP, which only the most grizzled strip-up artist will even admit exists (This is the width of paper crowded out by each successive page as you get nearer the center saddle staples). Essentially you print-to-disk, then PostStrip eats the pages and puts 'em out appropriately. Including the tedious, error-fraught "one with seventy-two, two with seventy-one" business that's such a drag. The only problem is I *still* (for I have not seen the program) need the companies' address/name/etc that makes it. And my attempts to ask the net have returned nothing. So: we know what we want, now if we only knew where to ask! Alex