Double sided PDF Problem

[Bob Sneidar]

As an IT technician working for a copier sales and service company, I always discourage page imposition in the document itself. Most print drivers have a means of producing booklets and handle the imposition for you. If you are indeed producing booklets, I assume they need to be center stapled as well. 

Adobe has it’s own means of imposing pages for a booklet. Typically I advise having Reader impose the pages, then everything else can be handled in the actual print driver properties. That of course is only for Adobe products. 

Bob S

> On Jan 29, 2021, at 1:38 AM, Graham Samuel via use-livecode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com> wrote:
> 
> 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?
>> --
>> Jacqueline Landman Gay | jacque at hyperactivesw.com
>> HyperActive Software | http://www.hyperactivesw.com
>> 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"?
>>> 
>>> --
>>> 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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