Quark Printing 3

[Nanamiz]

I want to print out a 5.5 X 8.5 booklet from QuarkXpress on HP Laser 2550 - 2 pages on each legal size paper. 40 page total - my old Publisher software could easily put the right pages on each sheet. Isn't there an easy way to print out the pages? I did print out 2 consecutive pages but when I tried to print out saying pages 6-35 to put page 6 and 35 on one sheet the printer did not produce anything. I would really appreciate any help....

 

[blueark]

Try downloading the free QuarkXClusive XTension from Quark's website and use it to create imposed PDF files which you can print from (Quark 6 only). Other than that, you may need to purchase imposition software to get that functionality.

 

[Nanamiz]

Thanks, Blueark for your advice. Is QuarkXclusive available for IBM? I thought it was only for Mac. I will try it. Otherwise is it possible from Quark to print out specified pages? and how does one do that? My 6-35 format didn't seem to work. Even if I could only print out 1-2 or pages in order I thought I could move the right page into the page 2 slot and reorder the pages and handnumber each page with the actual page number. Are these ideas way off the mark?

 

[blueark]

I don't know if it's available for PC, but now that you mention it, I suspect not. It was adapted from another piece of software called Your's Truly Designer, and I think that was Mac only.

Manual reordering the pages can be done; indeed, you wouldn't be the first! I would suggest working on a copy though. Just use the Document/Layout palette to reorganise the pages. The sum of the page numbers on facing pages should always be equal to the total number of pages + 1, and each spread alternates between left and right, one increasing, one decreasing until they meet in the middle. Also, start with the back page. Example: 8 page booklet gives you:

8 + 1 (=9)
2 + 7 (=9)
6 + 3 (=9)
4 + 5 (=9)

I hope that makes sense!

 

[duncdude]

hi Nanamiz

you could try saving all your pages as individual EPS files and using something like this (saved as sig.ps) dropped into Distiller:-

%!PS-Adobe-3.0

<</PageSize [792 612]>>setpagedevice

/s {/mysave save def} def

/lowerleft
	{
	/showpage ()def
	0 0 translate
	dup = flush
	       run
	mysave restore
	clear cleardictstack
	}	
def

/lowerright 
	{
	/showpage ()def
	595 0 translate
	dup = flush
	       run
	mysave restore
	clear cleardictstack
	showpage
	} def

%%Page:01 01
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/40.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/01.eps) lowerright

%%Page:02 02
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/02.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/39.eps) lowerright

%%Page:03 03
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/38.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/03.eps) lowerright

%%Page:04 04
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/04.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/37.eps) lowerright

%%Page:05 05
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/36.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/05.eps) lowerright

%%Page:06 06
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/06.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/35.eps) lowerright

%%Page:07 07
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/34.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/07.eps) lowerright

%%Page:08 08
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/08.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/33.eps) lowerright

%%Page:09 09
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/32.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/09.eps) lowerright

%%Page:10 10
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/10.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/31.eps) lowerright

%%Page:11 11
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/30.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/11.eps) lowerright

%%Page:12 12
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/12.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/29.eps) lowerright

%%Page:13 13
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/28.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/13.eps) lowerright

%%Page:14 14
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/14.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/27.eps) lowerright

%%Page:15 15
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/26.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/15.eps) lowerright

%%Page:16 16
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/16.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/25.eps) lowerright

%%Page:17 17
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/24.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/17.eps) lowerright

%%Page:18 18
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/18.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/23.eps) lowerright

%%Page:19 19
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/22.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/19.eps) lowerright

%%Page:20 20
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/20.eps) lowerleft
s (/path/to/your/eps/files/21.eps) lowerright

%%EOF

Kind Regards
Duncan

 

[signal49]

Blueark, that's a great trick! I never noticed that the spreads add up to the total number of pages +1. I have to do all our pagination by hand, so that's a great way to double check the page order.