Urgent Help Needed with Designing a Newsletter!

[aries2]

Hi!
I am trying to design a newsletter in Quark...but do not know how to make the layout...It is about a 8pg. newsletter. How do I design that page wise? In single page files...or in single pg files and then lay them out on a larger document in Quark...or in 2 pgs per file? I used to work at a newspaper and I know that they layed the paper out with the pages out of order and some were upside down and then they would fild it a certain way and then cut the edges. Would I do something like that? If so, where can I get a guide of how to lay the pgs out? Also, when a newsletter is printed, what is the standard or common size of paper used? Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated!!!
Thanks for your help!!!
CC

 

[jimoblak]

You really need to talk to your printer to determine what size of paper you can use. Most newsletters are printed on folded US tabloid or A3 sheets.

As a designer, you would create <b>one</b> Quark document with 8 pages. These pages would either be US letter-sized or A4. It is the responsibility of the printer to impose your document. <i>Page imposition</i> is what you witnessed when pages seemed out of order and turned upside down.

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Why is everyone in this forum responding to me as picklefish?

 

[bischerboy]

Hi,

if you're printing this out yourself, then photocopying it, it's always a good idea to knock it down on paper first.

If you're printing straight onto A3 (to fold in half to A4) you should get the layout in this order with two pages of your newsletter per page of your document (I think that's what I mean):

page 8, page 1
page 2, page 7
page 6, page 3
and finally page 4, page 5.

Alternatively as picklefish says, let your printer deal with imposition.