PDF Users - how do you print?

[malraux]

So it sounds like the majority of you print duplex (both sides on one sheet of paper) most of the time..?

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Its worth taking the time once to set up printer preferences/scripting to make even manual duplexing easy. I've got two printer profiles, (even, reverse order then odd normal order) so that I can just hit print, then walk to the printer, move the stuff on the output pile to the input tray, then hit print again.

 

[smootrk]

Thats a good idea.

I print stuff usually single sided, but I change the printer settings to print 2 pages on each sheet of paper. The paper itself comes out landscape oriented, but each page sits in standard layout (but smaller):

XXX XXX
XXX XXX
XXX XXX
XXX XXX

 

[Psion]

In reference to the OP - I don't print double-sided to save paper, I do it because I always lay out my PDFs as a print document, where the left and right pages are set up differently.

As a side not to would-be PDF publishers out there... please provide me with a PDF that can be hole punched when printed. One of the recent pdfs I thought was cool enough to print out (POSTMODERN: Fantastic Classes) has about no margins to speak of. Even if you don't lay out your left and right pages different, leave me a little room.

 

[catsclaw227]

So it sounds like the majority of you print duplex (both sides on one sheet of paper) most of the time..?

My B&W Laser has duplexing, so I do two-sided most of the time. Maps and graphics I will copy and paste into photoshop for resizing and printing so that I can lay them out the way I want.

I print stuff usually single sided, but I change the printer settings to print 2 pages on each sheet of paper. The paper itself comes out landscape oriented, but each page sits in standard layout (but smaller)

Does the print get too small to read this way? I recall that the first Pathfinder AP adventure for RotR was printed on a font that was WAAAY too small for that kind of approach.

 

[smootrk]

Does the print get too small to read this way? I recall that the first Pathfinder AP adventure for RotR was printed on a font that was WAAAY too small for that kind of approach.

Most of the time it is fine, but then I still have great eyesight. I too tend to print other things such as maps or compiled reference sheets as full page. It uses half as much paper (much like duplexing) but also uses less toner... it really just shows that I am a cheapskate and too lazy to figure out a good manual duplex procedure like the one stated above.

 

[Angel Tarragon]

So it sounds like the majority of you print duplex (both sides on one sheet of paper) most of the time..?

What drives your interest in this TheLe?

 

[HellHound]

What drives your interest in this TheLe?

Probably the fact that he published PDFs.

 

[dmccoy1693]

What drives your interest in this TheLe?

Layout. Its not that hard to layout pages for front and back printing, as opposed to antisipating a continual left side bind. But someone needs to antisipate how the PDF is going to be turned into a final product when they are laying it out..

 

[~Coxy]

One thing which is nice in a book but bad in a binder is starting new chapters on a left hand page - it means you can't put those cardboard indexing tabs into your binder. (Well you can, it just doesn't work as well.)

Apart from that, I'd like to back up the points about a margin for hole punching and being aware of A4 paper size. Perhaps two different PDF versions? A narrower, longer one that fits on A4 and can be holepunched, and a wider one which fills the page on US letter sheets.

 

[TheLe]

What drives your interest in this TheLe?

I am publishing a new rpg: Comic Book Super Heroes 2e, and this time I decided to hire an honest to goodness designer to handle the layout of the book... mostly due to sheer laziness on my part.

The first draft came in with alternating side borders/page numbers (odd number pages has the border to the left, and even number pages has the border to the right)... I am unaccustomed to this because I never use side borders and I assume that people are still printing only 1 side of the paper at a time.

I want the border on one side all the time (left) with the page number to the right. She wants alternated borders to account for 2 sided printing (ie duplex).

That is why I am here. I wanted to get an idea of how people print so that we can resolve this.

Thanks to all of you, I can go back and tell her that she was right and she should indeed go to duplex-style-layout that she wanted in the first place.

They say it takes a big man to admit that he's wrong.

I AM NOT A BIG MAN

-The Le Games, We Enhance Worlds.
(Original Comic Book Super Heroes 1e available now.)

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