vertically flip part of doc

[DaveC426913]

Short question:
Wish to flip half of pages of a multi-page doc.

Longer version:
I'm producing one of those manuals where the French manual is the reversed, back half of the English manual (is this common outside of Canada?) - i.e. 9 pages of English manual, centrefold, 9 pages of French manual *upsidedown*.

I want to know how to flip just the French pages within the document. I do not want to have to *edit* the French upsidedown. I am outputting to PDF file.

Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

DaveC426913

 

[TashaGoddard]

Easiest way would probably be to output to PDF and then rotate the relevant pages in Acrobat (if you have the full Acrobat, of course!). Otherwise, I don't know whether or not it's possible in Quark - I've never come across it, anyway.

 

[DaveC426913]

I'm surprised Quark can't do this.

We'd thought of the acrobat angle, that's why I mentioned it. But we don't have the full Acrobat.

 

[thombathe]

Hi Dave
the book your discribing is called a come & go.
I did 3 of them last week, If you are sending this to a printing co. they will flip the pages when they rip them.
If you want to do this in quark there are a few ways to do it. one is the pdf way another is make eps pages then inport them in a new doc rotateing as you go.
The way I would do it is create your pages with no bleed added, so you would have english pg 9 on the left and french on the right create a bounding box the size of the page for french pg9, say the page is 4 X 8 the box is 4 X 8
then select all on that page (you can group them), then rotate 180 and open up any bleed. Doing it this way makes it easy to make changes later.
Then if you want you can delete the bounding box.
Hope this helps you.

Thom

The longest jounney starts with the first step.

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[DaveC426913]

"If you are sending this to a printing co. they will flip the pages when they rip them."

No, they must got to the client flipped. We send them as PDF.


"...select all on that page (you can group them), then rotate 180..."

This will make it troublesome to edit them later since it won't necessarily be me making future edits.


I think our best solution is full-featured Acrobat. It just surprises me that Quark doesn't have this as an option.

 

[blueark]

Functionality like that is usually provided with scripting, or more likely a third party XTension. Have a look at the scripting examples that came with Quark and see if you can hack something together. Alternatively, check out some imposition XTensions - it might be a cheaper option than Acrobat.

Having said that, it's always worth having the full Acrobat - very handy piece of software. How are you creating your PDFs if you don't have it? Are you using Quark 6?