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

[Bob Garrood]

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.



 
Bob