[HacktionLab] Book in order?

[Mara]

Hi there,

I had some time last week, but am going away for the weekend and
probably won't get around to do anything until wednesday. If anyone else
wants to take a crack before, you're welcome.

Sorry about that,
Mara

On 04/11/2010 09:08, Mike Harris wrote:
> On 03/11/2010 10:49, Mara wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I'm having the same problem here and would love to get an ordered copy.
>> Especially as the layout on the open office document get messed up
>> around page breaks for me. Did anyone point to this? I tried finding a
>> response to this, but didn't.
>>
>> Can someone point me in the right direction if it's around or make it
>> available somewhere?
> 
> Hey Mara,
> 
> What Ben says makes sense, seems that you can reorder the pages using
> printing software to the format you want printing in - that makes sense.
> 
> So I don't think there's any need for the original document to be in the
> page order it is.
> 
> To speed this process up, Mara would it be possible for you to reorder
> the pages and make the amends you've suggested?  Relayingup the whole
> book again from Booki seems like just repeated the work that Ana's
> already done.  Let me know if you need help with this...
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Mara
>>
>> On 12/10/2010 13:05, Ben Green wrote:
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> especially Ana, thanks again for work on the booklet. I'd really like a
>>> copy of the booklet in order, I'm not sure if the pages being out of
>>> order is some kind of imposition feature of OOo or not, but I find it
>>> impossible to read or edit this. Can it be in order please?
>>>
>>> An in order A5 document (mybook.pdf in this example) can be converted
>>> into a fully imposed document like so using "psutils":
>>>
>>> pdf2ps mybook.pdf
>>> psbook -s32 mybook.ps mybook_imposed.ps
>>> psnup -Pa5 -pa4 -2 mybook_imposed.ps mybook_doubled.ps
>>> ps2pdf -sPAPERSIZE=a4 mybook_doubled.ps
>>>
>>> 32 is the "folio size" which is our case is that same as the whole
>>> document. Psutils is available on all reasonable versions of Linux, and
>>> also Ubuntu.
>>>
>>> Using PSutils to do imposition means that the document doesn't need to
>>> be out of order. Can we do this instead? Sorry to be a pain, but trying
>>> to make life easier for us all.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> ==
>>> From Ben Green
>>>
>>>
>>>
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