Double sided PDF Problem

[Graham Samuel]

I’m thinking (guessing) that he’s into the more general problem that you get when you are trying to print say a booklet with multiple pages of the book per printed sheet. You do have to print double-sided (and your printer may help you with that) but the key is lay it out so that page 2 of the booklet is at the back of page 1 etc. If for example you have an 8 page leaflet printed four up, the first - verso - physical page could be laid out like

1   3
5   7

and the other side of the paper - recto - would be laid out

4   2
8   6

People who print books etc are having to do this all the time, so it’s reasonable to assume that the problem has been encapsulated in a procedure by now. I won’t start with the links, since I don’t really know if this is the problem Brian is trying to solve.

Graham

> On 29 Jan 2021, at 06:21, J. Landman Gay via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> Right after I sent the message below, I think I understand what you meant. You want to print double-sided pages of all the cards in a stack. Is that right? On a regular printer you don't have to do anything special; if the printer driver supports double-sided printing then it just works.
> 
> For PDFs, I'd have to check. What OS are you on?
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> On January 28, 2021 11:59:01 PM "J. Landman Gay via use-livecode" <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
>> I'm confused. Are you writing a card game with decks of cards? Or do you
>> mean the cards in a lC stack? What is "flipping the page"?
>> 
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>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> On January 28, 2021 11:15:51 PM "Brian K. Duck via use-livecode"
>> <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> I’d like to print decks of cards, front and back
>>> 
>>> The front page is always easy.
>>> Cards print left to right: 1-3
>>> 
>>> Flipping the pages, in portrait layout, the cards are now face down, in
>>> order but reversed: 3,2, 1.
>>> 
>>> The problem is, printing 3 wide by 4 tall, aligining the two.
>>> 
>>> Any existing solutions or discussions?
>>> 
>>> Thanks for your time,
>>> Brian Duck
>>> Bduck at m at c dot com
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