[SLUG] Re: How's this trifold format? Bob?

[john at johnallsopp.co.uk]

>
> Hi John
>
> On Monday 14 November 2005 12:15,you wrote
>
>
>>
>> Bob, have you got 2.0? Does this work for you? Are you able to put
>> your education handout into this format?
> Yes yes and yes, but not very well.  It won't start at frame 1 when I
> insert a
> text or odt file (it takes both), it puts it at pages 3 and 4.  Which
> I can
> do printouts from.  Unfortunately printing in Linux removes column 1
> of
> frame 1, whereas printing from Windows removes the last 2 columns from
> frame
> 3.  I think the problem is about linking frames, because your template
> seems
> to have frames on top of frames for the first 2 pages.
>
> I tried this, slightly different from the method Martin outlined.
>
> Format > Page select A4 and landscape
>
> Use cursor to create 2-3 pages.
>
> Insert>Frame>columns, click on 3, set spacing to 0.2. Go to text and
> drag out
> the frame to the size required.  Do this for 2 pages.
>
> I tried linking frames by setting the previous link field on frame 2
> to frame
> 1.  I pressed insert text and OOo2 put the text on pages 1 and 3.  I
> saved
> this and went for some creative lassitude.  When I came back to try
> printing,
> the text had moved to pages 2 and 3.  But it printed fine,(with a box
> around
> the text), and the folds matched back and front.
>
> I will have another go later.  How about setting the spacing to 0.3"
> everywhere?  It looks as if it will be ok, though I might have to read
> the
> manual.

:-) It's taken loads of time to get the frames to work, OO2 is simply
flaky, in that it crashes and disappears. It's also flaky in that I
don't know how to use it and it seems to be counterintuitive. So I
feel your pain. What I sent does work though, but I've no idea whether
it'll work on your machine/printer/sw.

To be honest, now that we're getting close to it, time becomes the
biggest factor. If you can get something working, then that's fine.
There are obvious holes in the graphic design spec, so do what you
feel is right and we'll assess how it went after the fact.

Almost there :-)

J