JamesCanning

I have posted about this before, likely some of you will remember it. Briefly, I'm trying to figure out how to lay out 4- 4x5 psges on 1x8x10 page. I don't want to use imposition software mainly because I don't understand it. Montax needs to import a pdf page that's already in a correct sequence, this latter pdf layout is what I'm trying to make in Affinity Publisher. No I'm not real skilled in this sort of job. I have attached an .afpub file that I think will show what I am trying to accomplish. This attached file is for the public domain story "The Yellow Wallpaper" and is already edited to remove double form feeds and extraneous. Addendum: my Canon MX870 does not do duplex printing, its supposed to but won't do so with Publisher documents. OK, can someone show me how to link the text boxes so as to print out a booklet in the correct sequence? I assume I need to print odd-pages-only and then even-pages only. impossible.afpub

old Bru, re your layout - it's for notebook style layouts. What about for pamphlet style layouts? Thank you, James

Hi people, I've mentioned this before re Publisher, but a long time ago. I never got a solution to the problem of subdividing an 8x10 paper pages into 4-4x5 pages and printing out the result so it can be cut in one dimension and after cutting I want to have double sided 4x8 pages that can be folded in half and fitted within or on top of each other to make a 4x5 booklet. I have decided its impossible. The problem of odd and even pages subdivided into paired 4x5 odd and even pages, feels like an experiment in 4th dimensional topology. I can't use imposition software afaik because its meant for larger paper sizes. Do you all think I'm barmy? 😂 James

Thank you all. I never realized I was using the incorrect affinity app for this! I'm embarrassed and blaming old age for this. :'-( Thank you anyway. You are each and every one a small beacon of brightness in these mysteries HAHA :-D James

I just updated Affinity Designer to 1.8.5.703. I haven't used Designer for quite a while. I need to know how the heck do I get the pages panel out where I can see it?? Thanks! James

Thank you very much, MikeW! I have to put together some stuff that's gotten kinda scattered, before we could try this. I'm surprised any body can do this 🙂 I gave up on it after a lot of effort. Too many things I didn't know, I was trying to learn it entirely on my own. One caveat is that I am profoundly deaf so that help videos are not much good. Would it be practical/possible for me to learn from an example of yours you might post or send me? My best example I worked hard on, is a 5x7 page size laid out on 8 1/2x11 paper booklet, listing all my passwords to everything. There's a lot of old stuff so it's fairly big.I don't feel free to send this out you understand! James

Mike, Hi! I'm not so sure I even want to revisit this. I hoped to find a general sort of answer that would let me layout pages (5x7, even 4x5) on A4 paper and print correctly on the standard desktop printer everyone has lying around. Such as my Canon MX870. I thought there would just be some general rules or plans I could work with. I don't think that's possible now, I mean you could apparently make up a routine for printing a specific document in book form, but would the layout be usable with other text sizes, images and so on? I think this would get too complicated for my simple little mind. :-) If I'm wrong about that I'd love to hear more about it. Don't want much, do I ;-) James

Gave up! Peter and Susan, I just now saw your replies to my old post. Thank you both very much. I am not following this topic any more because "other things have happened", that is I have lost interest after repeated failures, and am doing other things now. I wanted to make small books from text I find or make up. These would be on standard office size paper, A4, maybe folded into halves or quarters. I have learned bookbinding as a way to make small books from start to finish. I was stopped by the problem of getting the pages to print out in the right order, which does not look to be possible with whats available online. That's where I am now. Again, thank you! James

THANK both of you! Walt you're still rolling along answering everything. Good for you. More Walts are needed :-) James

Hi people. I haven't been here for a while, I hope all of you are still chugging along well. My problem is: I'm trying to replace a string of six asterisks with a paragraph return. I get the error: "<Invalid preceeding regular expression prior to repetition operator>". Why might that be? Thank you! James

Thanks, inspiredmac Actually I'm trying to learn how to do imposition myself. Not everything, just be able to apply it to small pamphlets/booklets that I make for myself. It's something new to learn, and more complicated than I thought 😕 . James

PaulEC and Callum, thank you for your replies. I will take you to heart and see what more I can do without grinding my brain with learning imposition. I am trying to learn too many new things at the same time. Callum, my booklets would be just like the instruction manuals that come with most small pieces of hardware. How-to, listings, definitions, all kinds of text bits. James

Hello, I want to make small reference booklets, for instance lists of passwords and like that. I want these booklets to be 1/4 of a letter size document, that is, 4.25" x 5.5". Sometimes twice that, half of a letter size. I had the impression I have to have imposition software, such as my 'Montax Imposition', but I'm finding it very difficult to learn (newbie). I'm wondering if the imposition software is even necessary. Any opinions? Thank you very much for reading this. James

Dan and Petar, thank you both very much. Sometimes even the way something is worded, can be helpful and informative, and I can use anything! I learned from these articles. I don't have Acrobat but I do have the two imposition softwares I mentioned, Montax and Bookmaker. These should have me ready to go and I need to find out many small details, such as your references discuss. I'm working on it on my own because of a personal interest that started with bookbinding. I didn't expect it to expand so much and so fast :-). Again, thank you. James

Hi there, people. I would sure like some advice here. Even though this is rather off topic in an Affinity group. I haven't been able to learn how to do impositions on my own, it seems to be too advanced a topic for me. I have access to both Devalipi Bookmaker and to Montax Imposer. I can't get started with either one because I'm too ignorant :-\ I'm stalled totally. What I want to do is impose pages on letter size paper, so as to make both 4 1/4 x 5 1/2 and 5 1/2 x 8 1/2. booklets. The imposed pages will be cut as necessary from the letter sized printouts. This is all I will be doing. I'm unsure if I'm even wording this correctly. I find very little info online on how to do this, and it comes too thick and fast for me to follow along. I need to add that I'm deaf so that multimedia is usually useless. Where it's captioned, it's difficult to watch the video and see and absorb the captioning at the same time. Is this question answered in specialized printing classes? I'll take this somewhere else if you say I should! Thanks for reading it anyway. James.desperate