Have Page & Layout Designer and wish to produce A4 Landscape Folded Brochure 30 Plus Pages. Cannot find suitable template or any template that fills the need. Not sure if I'm in correct forum but help please.
Regards
Have Page & Layout Designer and wish to produce A4 Landscape Folded Brochure 30 Plus Pages. Cannot find suitable template or any template that fills the need. Not sure if I'm in correct forum but help please.
Regards
If Xara templates are not filling what you need, take a look at https://www.template.net/ they offer several different types that you maybe able to modify.
Another option is to look at Xara Cloud, they have a lot of templates that you maybe able to use for a fairly reasonable price.
https://www.xara.com/templates/new/
Ray.
Ray Thanks for the reply. I have turned to Xara because I love the way pages are constructed especially images with repel text facility. However Publisher makes life so much easier that I'm afraid I think I will go back to that app. Shame, but I have been looking all day for a solution.
Regards Terry
Actually this may be even easier. If you produce the document as 30 separate pages, then ask the printer to print as a brochure, it will do the thinking for you, and arrange the pages as necessary.
Keith
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Sorry Keith, are you talking about a printer as youd have at home or a printer that runs a commercial printing company?
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Imposed documents need to be in multiples of 4 pages. The export needs to be as single pages.
If printing to a desktop type printer, Adobe Reader--or just about any pdf reader--can print the single page pdfs as a booklet. It's usually less expensive to just take the pdf as single pages to a quick/office print establishment and have them print and bind it. If one has a bit larger, office type printer, they usually have an in-built booklet print function that again, uses a pdf exported as single pages.
If one is going to be imposing often enough, it usually pays to buy and use an imposition application to account for the folded paper thickness (creep). If one is only going to use letter or A4, there's even a free, good imposition application (Windows only) available. That, along with a creaser (or a folding machine), a capable stapler and shear, one can crank out booklets at a good pace.
Actually I will be producing in batches of 16 pages, stapling and then binding. I will guillotine any creep. There could be be 10 batches of 16 pages, I did not explain well enough at the beginning.
My true interest is the production of the pages, writing text and inserting images and the continuous write-up from page to page. Also the editing ability when you insert text etc in an existing page for it to insert and move the storey along in a logical manner. The printing seems incredibly complex which appears to be the main thrust of discussions. My printer prints double sided which suits the production of the brochure that I produce.
Once again I love the page construction of Xara that I have used for a number of year with WEB Designer, I would like to use this in Desk Top Publishing but it is getting very complicated from what I read from you. I was hoping that someone would point me to a template that would let me achieve this. I appreciate all the effort that goes into your replies. At the moment Microsoft Publisher is still the front runner.
Regards Terry
Then you are doing 16 page signatures for a book to eventually be 160+ pages? What you describe isn't how signatures are made, binding is going to be a problem and page creep is too.
I've made books by hand through the binding and cover process for fun before. So I don't want to discourage anyone from doing it. But it is a lot of work I personally have reserved for special occasions--3 times in 31 years.
It will generally come out easier/better if you just use a commercial service, even a POD.
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