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I am not a regular Quark user, so I have very limited knowlege and I will try my best to describe what Im trying to do.. I have a layout for 8.5 x 5.5 (8.5 x 11 -then folded in half) and the layout is set so the first page 8.5 x 5.5 is on the right side of the layout and the last page is on the left side. I want to print on an 8.5 x 11 piece of paper, and I want the last layout page to print with the first layout page. Is there a setting that will do this for me, or do I manually need to move the page? :?

Do you want to print these on your home printer? And it's just 4 pages?

If so, your best bet is to just make the doc letter size, landscape mode, and put a guide/line at 5 1/2" to show you the two pages on that side of the paper.

And do the same thing with an additional page.

What Ira suggests is by far the easiest thing to do. Your Quark document (in landscape view - that is, lying across the screen rather than upright) will have two pages, but each one is divided in two, so that the first page of the Quark document has Layout Page 4 on the left and Layout Page 1 on the right.

The second page of the Quark document has Layout Page 2 on the left and Layout Page 3 on the right - exactly as you would expect to see those two in use. Note that since 2 and 3 are a spread-to-view, you could run a picture across from one to the other, though you wouldn't sensibly be able to do that with 4 and 1. Also, if your layout design has a margin around the edge of each page, then on 2 and 3 you would have two margins seen next to each other down the centre, which you may consider to be too much margin. In that case increase the width of your 2-and-3 layouts towards the centre line so that you end up with only one normal-width-worth of margin down the centre.

Finally, the Quark text box linking tool will happily run text from 1 to 2 and 3 and then back to 4 again if need be.

Paul Sanderson, London UK

Unfortunately printing on the home printer, you won't be able to get full bleeds with the printer margins going to a full 8.5 x 11 on the average size printer. That might take away some design effects from a nice design job.

Lately I've been looking at a really nice little book I picked up - The QuarkXPress IdeaBook by Chuck Green - that is an illustrated catalog of QXP templates for common projects like pamphlets & brochures (and everything else) and comes with a Windows / Mac CD with all of the QXP templates for the documents shown, about 300 of them.

If you intend to do much more with QXP check it out. Binky

smartin684:

and I want the last layout page to print with the first layout page. Is there a setting that will do this for me, or do I manually need to move the page? :?

Yes, there is a way to do it. In the Print Dialog box, click "Spreads" on (it's near the top of the Print dialog box, besides "Pages")

ReneG:

smartin684:

and I want the last layout page to print with the first layout page. Is there a setting that will do this for me, or do I manually need to move the page? :?

Yes, there is a way to do it. In the Print Dialog box, click "Spreads" on (it's near the top of the Print dialog box, besides "Pages")

 

 

Sorry René but thta is not what he wants. Printing as spread will only print pages side by side as the READER would see them, What is wanted here is a way to print the pages (side by side) in such a way that when those printes are folded they will allow the reader to read the product as you would see it in your example. Simply take a newspaper appart to see what I am talking about here, the first page is coupled with the last, the secend with the secind last and so on. so instead of having:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8

What he wants is:

8 1 2 7 6 3 4 5

I do this by hand when I need it. I just make sure I work on a COPY

 

Hope this helps!

 

P.S. René, this is not your picture... That guy is named Raoul!  

smartin684:

and the layout is set so the first page 8.5 x 5.5 is on the right side of the layout and the last page is on the left side.

When he said the above, I thought his Quark pages were already set in printer's spreads: 8 1 etc. P.S. Yes, indeed it's Raoul. I'm originally from Québec City, so I know these guys! :-)