DTP in XXP

[joa1]

Greetings,

Can someone please provide some insight (any tutorial available?) into using XXP to do double page spreads where:

1. a newsletter front cover and back cover use a double page spread picture. (so, having a double page spread, the order of pages on XXP will be, 4,1,2,3). right now i can't get past 1,2,3,4.

2. pages 2 and 3 use a picture as background with overlayed text (since pages always show up as 1,2,3,4 etc., there is no way i can place a picture spreading over pages 2 and 3, unless i cut and manually place it...)

Seems to me that right now, XXP does not allow any of this, or am I missing something that is really obvious?...

Many thanks!

joa1

[Albacore]

If you go down to your local print shop you will find that they have a large format laser printer, in the UK it's SRA3 (450mm x 320mm) and in the states it's A3+ i think. This means that 2 A4 sheets can be laid out side by side with in enough room left for trimming "bleed" and this is the way to go rather than making it a multi-page doc. Layout your doc as it is to be printed with imposition, the front page to the right and the back page to the left in a custom sized page to the spec. that your printer uses and then do the same for the inside pages. Doing the inside pages if it is a easy layout and content I use layers for each different sides and then you can get the printer to switch them off & on depending what page they are printing.

[PhilM]

Hi joa1,

Create a document that consists of two double-page spreads:
File | New > | A4 Double Page Spread
Edit | Pages > | New Page
You should then have four A4 pages on screen.

Then draw your page contents like this:
Top left: Page 4
Top right: Page 1
Bottom left: Page 2
Bottom right: Page 3

Phil