creating an A3 paper size with rounded corners

Hi

I need to design a restaurant menu. It's an A3 size, landscape with 3 folds.

The client wants the corners of the menu to be rounded to prevent wear and tear on a straight edge corner.

How do I achieve this?

Thanks

The menu will need to be die-cut by the printer and not any printer can do this. You can look in the templates (Designs Gallery) to see if there is a three-fold A3 page and start from there.

Basically you will not have to do anything special except make sure there is nothing important in the area of the rounded corners that will be removed when the printer die-cuts the corners.

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Originally Posted by Zakiyya

The client wants the corners of the menu to be rounded to prevent wear and tear on a straight edge corner.
How do I achieve this?
Thanks

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If you are presenting the design and want to show rounded corners in Xara, you go to the Page and Layer gallery, click on the small arrow to the left of the page to get to the Layer view then click on the red lock on its Page Background.

Then click on the small arrow on the left of the Page Background and then select the Rectangle.
Next pick the Rectangle tool and add a border and adjust the size of the curve.

Remember to re-lock the Page background when you are finished.

Acorn

Adding to what Gary wrote. Be sure to find a print establishment who can either do the die cutting in-house or will contract with an establishment who will do the cutting and communicate with them before design is too far along. You will need to know how much "live area" inside the radiused corners they want. Live area is simply that area that is safe to design to for any element that cannot be trimmed off when the pages are cut.

Mike

I've purchased paper with pre-drilled holes (for 3 hole punch requirements), there might be a possibility of pre-rounded corner paper in stock at specialty printers available, but you'll need to find a print shop that can do that - you won't find it on store shelves anywhere.

Thank you so much!

It appears that you can get round corner cutters (Google for "round corner cutter") both as a single cutter for about six quid which seems to be used in the hobby craft market as well as larger hand operated cutters that can cut a bunch of corners at the same time.
This may be sufficient for a low volume job like menus.

Seems like a very excellent, cheap solution to me Tim, without the need to involve a Print Service. Just print out the menus on an ink-jet printer, laminate them (laminators are as cheap as chips) and round the corners, if really necessary, with a round corner cutter :)