pasting text within PM pages

[newtonpress]

I make up various publications on a weekly and monthly basis. When it comes to imposing these before going to print, I need to copy each page and paste onto an A2 laydown sheet.

When I copy the page from original setup to the A2 laydown sheet, the text moves and resizes itself and I then need to redo the majority of the text to fit the space originally given to it on the set up.

Is there a standard setting which could be made to keep the settings on each page the same, whether imported or set from scratch

 

[artdirectoreric]

Check your settings in Preference>Layout Adjustment.

Check that the Adjust Layout box in Document Setup is unchecked.

Can you do the same thing using the Build Booklet Plug-In?

 

[zefir]

Art: I think the Build Booklet Plug-In is not really an Imposition tool,
as used by Service Providers. An example:
A brochure consists of 40 pages A4 portrait, consisting of 20 sheets A3,
printed on both sides.
Bookled with correct options (saddle-stich, or so) creates a sequence
of printable jobs for A3 sheets landscape:
40-1, 2-39, 38-3, 4-37 (sum is always 41)
If the desktop printer prints duplex, this works automatically, otherwise
each sheet has to be put in again reversed.
This is helpful for "home production of brochures.

Newton: for a while I applied copy and paste so:
Select all, group (for safety), copy, paste, adjust corner
by numbers 0,0. But there is a keycode for pasting at the
same position - forgot it, because the simple method works
also. ---Gernot

 

[Guest_imported]

I have checked the Preferences>layout adjustment and checked the adjust layout box in document setup - It reads the same on both pages???

 

[artdirectoreric]

Zefir, I think you're referring to PowerPaste, which on a PC is Ctrl-Alt-V (it's been so long since I've been on a Mac, I've forgotten which are the corresponding keys.)

My other suggestions were stabs in the dark, not being totally sure what the procedures newtonpress was using.

 

[carlow]

Hi,

Impositioning afile for your printer is not easaly done within Pagemaker therefore I would make the impositioning in another programmlike Acrobat. Make a ps-filefirst of your document distill it with the settings (compression...) you wan't and then open it in Acrobat (you need the full acrobat version, with a special plugin for impositioning.
I know it is a work around but it would bea save way to do it.

It's just a tip you know. I like it much btter if my printer makes the impositioning himself. Printing machines may have som settings that are not always the same.

Grillhouse