Janet Kaiser on wed 22 dec 04
Well, it is not really off topic, because potters need to print
brochures, letters, etc. But anyway... I do not use MSPublisher
for any of the stuff you do, Phil, but I do use PageMaker to
achieve a great deal. I used to create forms as part of my job...
Yes, there are professional form designers! At least there are in
Germany, which is almost as burocratic as the UK! Whether Germany
or the UK we tend to use A4 paper exclusively (except UK lawyers
and some Govt. departments who use custom-made stationary,
including the files to hold them), so I do not know about those
other formats that you are using. HOWEVER... I have found that
you often have to trick the printer into thinking it is dealing
with a different size paper or envelope to the one it is actually
fed.
For example, I often take a C5 envelope (landscape) but set up
the document as an A4 (portrait). Design what I want printed
across the top of the "page" and then feed the printer the
envelopes. Depends on your make of printer whether you succeed
with this strategy or not. And of course, how precise your
measurements, layout and printer feeder all are.
AFAIK printing right up to the edge of paper is a relatively new
concept for manufacturers of printers for use by home users. It
has only just become "universal" with these photo-printer
set-ups. Most printers will want to leave a few millimeters
around the edge. I presume this is so that the ink does not gunge
up the innards... The professional users are printing onto paper
which then is cut to size. They can then design "to-the-edge"
layouts easily, by extending colour, patterns, etc. beyond the
margins. It will then just be guillotined off...
If you are designing the layout yourself, for professional
printing later, find out what they will accept. Lisa is lucky her
printer will take MSPublisher... Ours would not, because there is
too much for them to convert to whatever they use. The do accept
PageMaker 5.0 and later.
The other questions you asked... Well Phil, it seems to me that
you are requiring a great deal more of the programmes than would
be considered "normal" or "average"! You need "advanced"
programming here!
Hope this helps!
Sincerely
Janet :o)
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>3) How may I obtain printed boarders as will sit say 1/4
>inch from the edge of either a sheet of paper, or, an
>envelope? - so far, either my Printer or the programmes
>itself, will not let me have the results I want in that
>regard. I am printing Envelopes and the closest I can get
>the boarder to the edge is like 1/2 inch on the long axis,
>and about 3/8ths on the short. This is not the look I want,
>either for Envelopes or other things.
>
>5) What 'intuitive', user-friendly, or generally excellent
>Text-&-drawing programmes can you recomend, as have more -
>or more refined outcomes from their features - than the
>MSPub? Or is this an issue which really is about my not
>knowing how to use the MSPubmeister?
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