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BOOKBILD.DOC--Use PRINTDOC.BAT to print these docs, NOT WordPerfect! B O O K B I L D V 1 . 0 A =============================================== Pamphlet Creator and Book Formatter for WordPerfect 5.1 Requires WordPerfect 5.1 (DOS version) A Shareware Package from: Jerry Stern Science Translations P. O. Box 20234 Baltimore, MD 21284-0234 _______ ____|__ | (R) --| | |------------------- | ____|__ | Association of | | |_| Shareware |__| o | Professionals -----| | |--------------------- |___|___| MEMBER Quick-Start Guide Begins on Page 7 BOOKBILD is a copyrighted program distributed as SHAREWARE. All rights are reserved. You may try out the program for up to 30 days for free. If you continue to use this program, you must pay a registration fee of $10.00. Registered users receive a bonus disk of additional BOOKBATS clip art, technical support, notification of upgrades and new releases, with special upgrade pricing for registered users. B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 2 Table of Contents ================= REGISTRATION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 ASP Ombudsman . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 CHANGES IN VERSION 1A . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 OTHER FILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 LIMITED WARRANTY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 TRIAL USE LICENSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 QUICK START . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHOOSING A BOOKLET FORMAT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 VERTICALLY-FOLDED LANDSCAPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 VERTICALLY FOLDED PORTRAIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 HORIZONTALLY FOLDED LANDSCAPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 HORIZONTALLY-FOLDED PORTRAIT . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 DEFINING A LABEL . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 LABELS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 PREPARING A BOOKLET FOR REORDERING . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 SELECT A PAPER TYPE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 MOVE ALL CODES TO DOCUMENT INITIAL CODES . . . . . . . . 13 ADD A BASE FONT CODE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 RESTORE ALL TEXT TO THE BASE FONT . . . . . . . . . . . 14 GENERATE ALL TABLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 READY? RUN BOOKBILD! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 PREPARING THE REORDERED BOOKLET FOR PRINTING . . . . . . . . 15 PRINTING THE BOOKLET . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 TALKING TO PRINTING COMPANIES . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 TROUBLE-SHOOTER'S GUIDE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18 All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 3 REGISTRATION ============ BOOKBILD/DOS V. 1.0A is shareware, or "Try before you buy" software. You may copy this entire package and pass it on unchanged to other WordPerfect users. If you use the program for more than 30 days, you must register. Basic registration is $US 10., and a variety of payment types are listed in the files REGISTER.DOC and PRODUCTS.DOC, including Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. Send registrations to: Or Phone or FAX to: Jerry Stern 410-661-2224 Science Translations PO BOX 20234 Outside U.S. & Canada Baltimore, Maryland 21284-0234 add $2.00 Shipping. Maryland residents add 5 per cent sales tax. Registered users receive a bonus disk of additional BOOKBATS clip art, technical support, notification of upgrades and new releases, with special upgrade pricing for registered users. Support is by mail, FAX, or phone, at the same address and phone number used for registration. Support is by mail, FAX, or phone, at the same address and phone number used for registration, or via the SciTrans support conference on GEnie--in the WordPerfect RT, Third-Party Support category, SciTrans topic. You may contact the author as J.Stern10 on GEnie, as 72144,1241 on Compuserve, or on the Internet as 72144.1241@compuserve.com. Look in the VENDINFO.DIZ file for support boards and additional contact info. Jerry Stern is a member of the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP). ASP wants to make sure that the shareware principle works for you. If you are unable to resolve a shareware-related problem with an ASP member by contacting the member directly, ASP may be able to help. The ASP Ombudsman can help you resolve a dispute or problem with an ASP member, but does not provide technical support for members' products. Please write to The ASP Ombudsman, at 545 Grover Road, Muskegon, MI 49442, or send a CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to: ASP Ombudsman 70007,3536. WordPerfect and WP Corp are registered trademarks of WordPerfect Corporation within the U.S. and other countries. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 4 CHANGES IN VERSION 1A --------------------- There are no changes in program features in version 1.0A of Bookbild. Support information has been updated in this release, and some minor changes and additions made to the documentation. No bug fixes were necessary. OTHER FILES ----------- In the VENDINFO.DIZ file, there is a list of the files included in this release of Bookbild 1.0 for DOS. If any are missing or if the sizes and dates do not match that list, the package has been tampered with. Any additional files are not part of Bookbild. Registered users receive a current and complete copy. For more information, see these files: REGISTER.DOC Order form for registering Bookbild for DOS and other products. PRODUCTS.DOC Product information. Includes other wonderful products from Jerry Stern and Science Translations, including GRAPHCAT, BOOKBILD, the Letterhead Kit, each available for both DOS and Windows, and the Wood Clips collections of clip art. The files with .WPG extensions are BOOKBATS clip art images-- chapter ending markers in the Wood Clips series of clip art. More are provided free to registered users. When you register, your bonus disk will contain additional Wood Clips, and additional collections are available by subject. DEFINITION OF SHAREWARE ======================= Shareware distribution gives users a chance to try software before buying it. If you try a Shareware program and continue using it, you are legally required to register. With registration, you get anything from the simple right to continue using the software to an updated program with printed manual. Copyright laws apply to both Shareware and commercial software, and the copyright holder retains all rights, with a few specific exceptions as stated below. Shareware authors are accomplished programmers, just like commercial authors, and the programs are of comparable quality. (In both cases, there are good programs All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 5 and bad ones!) The main difference is in the method of distribution. The author specifically grants the right to copy and distribute the software, either to all and sundry or to a specific group. For example, some authors require written permission before a commercial disk vendor may copy their Shareware. Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should find software that suits your needs and pocketbook, whether it's commercial or Shareware. The Shareware system makes fitting your needs easier, because you can try before you buy. And because the overhead is low, prices are low also. Shareware has the ultimate money-back guarantee--if you don't use the product, you don't pay for it. LIMITED WARRANTY THIS SOFTWARE AND MANUAL ARE PROVIDED FOR EVALUATION ONLY, ON AN "AS IS" BASIS. SCIENCE TRANSLATIONS DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES RELATING TO THIS SOFTWARE, WHETHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO ANY IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. NEITHER SCIENCE TRANSLATIONS NOR ANYONE ELSE WHO HAS BEEN INVOLVED IN THE CREATION, PRODUCTION, OR DELIVERY OF THIS SOFTWARE SHALL BE LIABLE FOR ANY INDIRECT, CONSEQUENTIAL, OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE SUCH SOFTWARE, EVEN IF SCIENCE TRANSLATIONS HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES OR CLAIMS. THE PERSON USING THE SOFTWARE BEARS ALL RISK AS TO THE QUALITY AND PERFORMANCE OF THE SOFTWARE. This agreement shall be governed by the laws of the State of Maryland and shall inure to the benefit of Science Translations and any successors, administrators, heirs and assigns. Any action or proceeding brought by either party against the other arising out of or related to this agreement shall be brought only in a STATE or FEDERAL COURT of competent jurisdiction located in Baltimore County, Maryland. The parties hereby consent to in personam jurisdiction of said courts. TRIAL USE LICENSE Bookbild is NOT a public domain program. It is copyrighted by Science Translations. This software and accompanying documentation are protected by United States Copyright law and also by International Treaty provisions. Science Translations grants you a limited license to use this software for evaluation purposes for a period not to exceed thirty days. If you continue using this software after the All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 6 thirty-day evaluation period, you MUST make a registration payment to Science Translations. LIMITED DISTRIBUTION LICENSE INDIVIDUALS may distribute Bookbild to friends or associates, provided they charge no fees for this service, and they convey a complete and unaltered copy of the shareware version of this product. All other distribution is allowed only under the terms of the attached VENDINFO data record, which is hereby incorporated by reference. Any distribution satisfying all the distribution requirements expressed in that data record is hereby authorized. You may not distribute this product, modify it, or bundle it with other products except as specifically allowed therein. You may not use, copy, rent, lease, sell, modify, decompile, disassemble, otherwise reverse engineer, or transfer the licensed program except as provided in this agreement. Any such unauthorized use shall result in immediate and automatic termination of this license. Permission to distribute the Bookbild package is not transferable, assignable, saleable, or franchisable. Each vendor wishing to distribute the package must independently satisfy the terms of this limited distribution license. U.S. Government Information: Use, duplication, or disclosure by the U.S. Government of the computer software and documentation in this package shall be subject to the restricted rights applicable to commercial computer software as set forth in subdivision (b)(3)(ii) of the Rights in Technical Data and Computer Software clause at 252.227-7013 (DFARS 52.227-7013). The Contractor/manufacturer is Science Translations, Box 20234, Baltimore, MD 21284-0234. Science Translations may revoke any permissions granted here, by notifying you in writing. All rights not expressly granted here are reserved to Science Translations. You are encouraged to pass a copy of the unregistered version of Bookbild along to your friends for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they find that they can use it. All registered users will receive a copy of the latest version of Bookbild, additional BookBats chapter-ending graphics, discounted upgrades, newsletter announcements of upgrades and new products, and technical support. Site Licenses, volume discounts, and additional INTERNATIONAL registration information are in the file PRODUCTS.DOC. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 7 QUICK START =========== BOOKBILD requires WordPerfect 5.1, DOS version. It is a shareware package featuring a WordPerfect macro that will convert a formatted file into a two-across pamphlet in either landscape or portrait orientation, with either a vertical fold (the usual) or a horizontal fold (a brochure that opens up rather than across). Any booklet length is possible. Because the fonts native to your printer or font package are used, landscape booklets are only possible if you can already use landscape printing. Caution: this is not an introductory-level exercise, even with BOOKBILD to help. Although the actions of the macro are straightforward, when you rearrange all the pages of a formatted document, especially one containing font changes, strange things happen. READ THIS DOC FILE ALL THE WAY THROUGH! There is a list of steps to follow while preparing to run BOOKBILD, and using the list as a checklist will save you time and aggravation. Once you have done a few brochures with BOOKBILD, you'll only need a memory jog, and BOOKBILD has that function built into its opening screen. Here are the basic steps: 1) Copy the macro to the WP macro directory. (See the installation instructions on page ?.) 2) Define a two-page layout as a pair of labels. (See page 9 for help in choosing the shape and orientation of the booklet, and page 11 for help defining a label size/type.) 3) Format the text, graphics, and so forth as you wish. Move every possible code to Document Initial Codes. Add a Base Font code to Document Initial Codes to replace the Initial Base Font. Balance all the open codes, so that all margin changes, line spacing codes, tab sets, and font changes are restored to their standard value for the document at the bottom of every page. (See page 13 for the details of preparation.) 4) Generate any cross-references, lists, and tables of contents, if necessary, and save the file. 5) Run the BOOKBILD macro. When it finishes running, your original document will have been replaced by the reordered document. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 8 6) After the conversion, you will still need to move headers and footers, and add Suppress codes to keep those codes from printing on pages where they don't belong. These remaining steps cannot be done by the macro, because only you, as the designer of your own document, can understand what you really want the finished product to look like. Starting with the file as created by BOOKBILD, move any header and footer codes to the new beginning page of the booklet, e.g. page 4 on a one-sheet booklet, and add Suppress codes as needed. Preview and print as you like, but if you must make editing changes that affect page breaks, make the editing changes in the original file (not the result file), and then save and run BOOKBILD again. International Users: Although BOOKBILD's prompts are in English, all of the internal macro commands and menu choices have been set using international equivalents. BOOKBILD should work properly with ANY WP 5.1 language module. However, I have not been able to test every possible international combination of software, interim release, and hardware. Please write if you find that BOOKBILD fails in any way on your system. INSTALLATION ------------ If you are reading these files on screen, you may print them with the PRINTDOC.BAT batch file. (Don't print them from WordPerfect-- they are formatted with page breaks for printing from DOS.) From the DOS prompt, log to the directory holding the BOOKBILD distribution files. Start the PRINTDOC file by typing it like this: printdoc lpt1 (where lpt1 is the name of your printer--change it as needed for your system.) You may use BOOKBILD entirely from a floppy disk if you wish, but the macro should be copied to your hard disk to be used easily. To install the BOOKBILD macros to the WordPerfect macro directory, run the batch file INSTALL.BAT from the DOS prompt while logged to the BOOKBILD distribution disk or directory. Start INSTALL.BAT with the new directory name to make for storing the BOOKBILD docs and samples, and the name of the macro directory used by WordPerfect, usually c:\wp51\wpm or c:\wp51. For example: INSTALL c:\bookbild c:\wp51 (Copies package to c:\bookbild, using c:\wp51 for WP/DOS macros.) All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 9 INSTALL c:\bookbild d:\wp51\wpm (Copies package to c:\bookbild, using d:\wp51\wpm for WP/DOS macros.) If you do not know where your WordPerfect macros should be placed, press Setup (Shift-F1), choose (6) Location of Files, and write down the setting next to (2) Keyboard/Macro Files. Press Cancel (F1) twice to return to the document screen. The entry that you wrote down should be the first pathname used on the install command line. CHOOSING A BOOKLET FORMAT ========================= Just as not every project has the same needs, not every booklet will be printed in landscape mode. The simplest brochure is just a normal page, printed in two columns, and folded between the columns. There are four basic formats. Each booklet will be printed in portrait mode (across the short measurement of the paper), or in landscape mode (across the long way). Each booklet will be folded either vertically or horizontally. U.S. legal paper is only practical for two of these formats, the vertically- folded landscape, and the horizontally-folded portrait styles. The two horizontally-folded formats require upside-down printing, but in this case that is very simple. After reordering the pages with BOOKBILD, print only the first side of each page. Then turn the stack around end-for-end as well as turning the other face up, and print the second set of sides. Each page will hold two booklet pages in the same orientation on one side, and two booklet pages upside down on the other. Users of duplex printers: this is NOT standard duplex, or double-sided, printing, so use the printer to print only side of each page at a time. VERTICALLY-FOLDED LANDSCAPE --------------------------- This is the most common booklet format, good for instruction manuals and event programs. Use Landscape fonts, and fold vertically, so that the folded booklet has the bound or stapled edge on the left. Paper Size Folded Form U.S. Letter 8 1/2" x 11" 5 1/2" wide x 8 1/2" tall U.S. Legal 8 1/2" x 14" 7" wide by 8 1/2" tall A4 210mm x 297mm A5 or 148mm wide by 210mm high All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 10 VERTICALLY FOLDED PORTRAIT -------------------------- This format is tall and narrow, and suitable for short brochures. Use portrait fonts, and fold vertically, for a left-hand bound edge. Paper Size Folded Form U.S. Letter 8 1/2" x 11" 4 1/4" wide x 11" tall A4 210mm x 297mm 105mm wide by 297mm high HORIZONTALLY FOLDED LANDSCAPE ----------------------------- A wide and short format, good for short brochures. Use landscape fonts, and fold so that the bound edge is at the top. When printing, the paper must be turned around end for end before printing the second side. Paper Size Folded Form U.S. Letter 8 1/2" x 11" 11" wide x 4 1/4" tall A4 210mm x 297mm 297mm wide by 105mm high HORIZONTALLY-FOLDED PORTRAIT ---------------------------- This style shares the same sizes with the vertically-folded landscape, but the print travels across the wide direction of the page. Use portrait fonts, and position the folded edge at the top. This format works well for printed inserts to be included with videotapes--use letter or A4 paper, allow margins in the label definition, and trim them off before folding. When printing, the paper must be turned around end for end before printing the second side. Paper Size Folded Form U.S. Letter 8 1/2" x 11" 8 1/2" wide x 5 1/2" tall U.S. Legal 8 1/2" x 14" 8 1/2" wide by 7" tall A4 210mm x 297mm A5 or 210mm wide by 148.5mm high All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 11 DEFINING A LABEL ================ Before you can create a booklet, you must describe to WordPerfect what size of paper you will print it on. A paper definition contains not just the measurements of the page, but also the margins, whether the page is to be printed across the short side (portrait) or lengthwise (landscape). All paper definitions are stored by WordPerfect in the "PRS" file, or Printer Resource file. If you use more than one printer, or more than one printer resource file, you must create a booklet paper definition in every PRS file that you will use to format and print booklets. For example, if you are using a HP LaserJet II and LaserTools' TrueType-for-WordPerfect program for scalable fonts, than you can print with either the HP driver, or the TTWP-LaserJet driver. Create the booklet definition with both by pressing Print (Shift-F7), (S) Select Printer, and choosing the first PRS file, pressing Exit (F7), and entering the steps below. Then select the next PRS file, and enter the same steps again. Labels are also defined as paper types, and our booklets are built as sheets of labels, each with two half-page labels on them. The steps below will show you how to create a label definition for a vertically-folded landscape booklet--the most common type. For other types, just substitute the choices shown in the "Choosing a Booklet Format" section, starting on page 9. From the document screen, press Format (Shift-F8), (2) Page, (7) Paper Size, (2) Add, (9) Other, type "Booklet" and press (Enter). The "Edit Paper Definition" screen should appear. 1) Paper Size: Choose either (2) Standard Landscape or (9) A4 Landscape. The message, "Label information needs to be updated for this paper size" may appear, and you will be returned to the "Edit Paper Definition" menu. 2) Paper Type: You have already entered this item. If you will create more than one booklet format, enter a more specific name, such as "Tall Booklet." WordPerfect will add "-Wide" to all landscape paper types automatically. 3) Font Type: For the standard booklet, choose Landscape fonts. 4) Prompt to Load: The default choice here is "No." If you change it to "Yes," WordPerfect will remind you to feed paper for every sheet you print. Whenever possible, leave this setting at "No." 5) Location: The default choice is "Continuous." You may need to change this for some multi-bin printers--see your printer manual. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 12 A printer that uses cut paper but feeds itself automatically is considered "Continuous." 6) Double Sided Printing: If your printer can print on both sides of the paper, and you are creating a vertical-fold booklet, set this to "Yes." For all other printers, and duplex printers used with horizontal-fold booklets, leave this setting at "No." 7) Binding Edge: Leave this setting at the default--it will not be useful while creating booklets. 8) Labels: See below. 9) Text Adjustment: Leave these settings at zero. They are useful for aligning printouts on labels, but will usually not be helpful here. LABELS ------ When you press 8) Labels from the "Edit Paper Definition" menu, choose (Y) Yes. The screen will change to the "Format: Labels" menu. 1) Label Size: For letter paper, enter 5.5" for the width, and 8.5" for the height. For A4 paper, enter 148mm for the width, and 210mm for the height. For other formats, see the list starting on page 9. 2) Number of Labels: Enter 2 columns and 1 row for all vertically-folded booklets. For horizontally-folded booklets, use 1 column and 2 rows. 3) Top Left Corner: Set these measurements to zero. 4) Distance Between Labels: Set these measurements to zero. 5) Label Margins: Set these measurements to the default margins you would like for your booklet pages, probably 1/2" or 12mm each. These numbers must be greater than or equal to your minimum printer margins, but you don't need to look them up. When you go on to the next step, if you have set the margins too small, WordPerfect will automatically reset them to the minimum sizes. After setting all the numbers and measurements above, press (Enter) enough times to return to your document. The new form will be chosen in you document and ready to use, and when you need to select it again, you need only select the booklet from the Paper Size/Type list. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 13 PREPARING A BOOKLET FOR REORDERING ================================== When you run BOOKBILD, it will remind you of the steps covered in this section with this message: Before continuing, did you . . . Select a paper type containing labels 2 across by 1 down? Move all setup and tab set codes to Document Initial Codes? Add a Base Font code in Document Initial Codes? Restore all text to the Base Font before each page break? Break all multiple-page tables into single-page tables? Generate all tables, cross references, and indexes? In addition to these steps, you must also NOT have any new page codes in your document, as they will stop the booklet from retaining its formatting during the conversion process. Also, using cross-references tied to box numbers will not work, because the box numbers will change during the conversion. You can, however, use captions that are normal text, such as "Box 1" with no box number code in them--text doesn't change during conversion. SELECT A PAPER TYPE ------------------- Before formatting your booklet, you must select a paper size and type, and that code must be placed in the Document Initial Codes area. Press Format (Shift-F8), choose (3) Document, (2) Initial Codes, Format (Shift-F8), (2) Page, (7) Paper Size. From the list, pick the one of the Booklet formats. (If you haven't created a Booklet format yet, see page 11.) Now you may format your document normally. You may choose graphics, tables, equations, cross references, and all other advanced features normally, with one exception: No feature should cross over a page break. For example, in a multiple-page table, rather than letting WordPerfect automatically break the table for you, end the table on each page, and start a new and separate table on the next page. Paired codes, such as [BOLD][bold], may safely cross page breaks. Remember: booklets are four pages long, or eight, or 64, but always a multiple of four pages. If you booklet isn't the right length, BOOKBILD will pad it with blank pages at the end to make it work. MOVE ALL CODES TO DOCUMENT INITIAL CODES ---------------------------------------- All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 14 Once all the formatting of your document has been completed, you must begin to convert it to a form that BOOKBILD can handle. The first step is to check the beginning of your document for margin codes, font codes, page numbering codes, and any other codes EXCEPT headers and footers. Move all the codes you find into the Document Initial Codes area. Here's how: Turn on Reveal Codes (Alt-F3), press Block (Alt-F4), use the arrow keys to block the codes to be moved, and press Move (Ctrl-F4), (1) Block, (1) Move, Format (Shift-F8), (3) Document, (2) Initial Codes, (Enter). Press Exit (F7) twice to return to the editing screen. ADD A BASE FONT CODE -------------------- Normally, you would choose the beginning font for the booklet by using the Document Initial Base Font. That font choice will not consistently carry over into your reordered booklet, so place a font code inside Document Initial Codes. RESTORE ALL TEXT TO THE BASE FONT --------------------------------- No Base Font codes should be used in a booklet. Your work will be far faster and easier if you use paired styles to mark all of your font changes. If you must use Base Fonts, then restore the text to the original font at the bottom of every page. If you restrict yourself to paired style codes and paired attribute codes, such as [OUTLINE] Formatted Text Here! [outline], then you do not need to turn off the codes after every page. However, all OPEN styles and OPEN codes, such as [Tab Set], [L/R Mar:1:, 1"], or [Leading Adj:0.02",0"], must be reset to the original settings at the bottom of every page. GENERATE ALL TABLES ------------------- Nearly there! If you use lists, cross-references, tables of contents, or any other feature from the Mark Text (Alt-F5) key, Generate the document by choosing Mark Text (Alt-F5), (6) Generate, (5) Generate Tables, etc., (Y) Yes. READY? RUN BOOKBILD! -------------------- Save your file. Clear Document 2. Your formatted, generated, and saved document should be in Document 1. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 15 Run the BOOKBILD macro by pressing Macro (Alt-F10), typing BOOKBILD, and pressing (Enter), and pressing (Enter) at the reminder prompt if you really are ready to convert the document. Safety features have been built into BOOKBILD that will insist that you save before running the macro, because during the conversion process, the original document will be lost and replaced by the resequenced page set. PREPARING THE REORDERED BOOKLET FOR PRINTING ============================================ After the conversion, you will still need to move headers and footers, and add Suppress codes to keep those codes from printing on pages where they don't belong. These remaining steps cannot be done with a macro, because only you, as the designer of your own document, can understand what you really want the finished product to look like. Starting with the file as created by BOOKBILD, move any header and footer codes to the new beginning page of the booklet, e.g. page 4 on a one-page booklet, and add Suppress codes as needed. Preview and print as you like, but if you must make editing changes that affect page breaks, make the editing changes in the original file (not the result file), and then save and run BOOKBILD again. PRINTING THE BOOKLET -------------------- To print a booklet on both sides of the paper on any printer except a "duplex" or double-sided printer, you will need to run the set of pages through the printer twice. For the first run, press Print (Shift-F7), (5) Multiple Pages, press (O) Odd (NOT ZERO!), and press (Enter). WordPerfect will print only the physical odd pages of the booklet, and will ignore the [Pg Num:] codes. Next, feed the stack of pages back into the printer in the same order, and repeat the steps; this time choose (E) Even pages. (Note: the Odd and Even printing feature is not in all WordPerfect 5.1 manuals--it was added in the 3/30/90 interim release of WordPerfect 5.1) For vertically-folded booklets, feed the pages in the same direction (but opposite side up) as on the first pass. For horizontally-folded booklets, turn the stack end-for-end before printing. If your original document needed generation before printing, WordPerfect will ask whether to print, because changes were made All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 16 since the last time the indexes and tables of contents, etc. were rebuilt. If you generated immediately before saving the document prior to running BOOKBILD, you should not generate again before printing the reordered document. TALKING TO PRINTING COMPANIES ----------------------------- Although most experienced printing firms will have handled booklets before, not all of their employees will understand how your pages must be oriented for your booklet to keep all the pages in order. Always make a mock-up copy for the printer, and fold it, and try to make it into a completed sample of how the finished brochure should look. The sample should be in addition to a set of unfolded pages, printed on one side only. The extra few minutes now will save you days later. If you choose either of the horizontally-folded formats, attach some notes to the sample pointing out that each page must be turned end-for-end before printing the second side. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 17 TROUBLE-SHOOTER'S GUIDE ======================= 1) Before I ran BOOKBILD, my document was eight pages long. Now it's longer, with some blank half pages. You probably had an open code for Base Font, or Left/Right Margins, somewhere in the body of the text. When the pages were re-ordered, those codes affected pages that should not have had those settings. Go back to your original document, and search each page for any and all codes, especially fonts and margins, and add codes at the bottom of the page that turn off, or restore, the changes made by those codes. If those fonts need to be on following pages, turn them on at the beginning and off at the end of every page. Try to convert your document into a series of individual documents that carry no codes over between pages unless they affect every page of the document. 2) Some of my [TAB] codes turned into [RGT TAB]. Your document probably contains both a change in Base Font, and a change in the tab settings, somewhere inside the document. WordPerfect makes that change automatically under some combinations of small tabs and large fonts. Look for a [Tab Set: ... ] code in the original document, and either remove it, or add another tab setting at the end of the page, that resets the tab positions to those in effect at the document's beginning. 3) When I try to save my converted booklet, after running BOOKBILD, WordPerfect forgets my file name. That's right. It's not the same document anymore, and BOOKBILD's work cannot be undone. The filename was deliberately lost, so that you cannot accidentally replace the original document with the reordered version. Use the reordered version only for printing, and if you must save it, use a file name that identifies it as a reordered booklet, such as booklet.fin. 4) My computer is old and slow, so using Odd or Even printing from the Multiple Pages option takes a week for each side. Hints? Edit your paper style and type for the booklet, and change "Prompt to Load?" to "Yes." Then print the entire document normally, and as each page comes out of the printer, turn it so that the second pass will print on the blank side, and feed it back in. From the Control Printer screen, you will have to press "Go" for each page to tell WordPerfect that the next sheet of paper is ready. All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern B O O K B I L D V. 1.0 18 INDEX ===== ASP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 bonus . . . . . . . . . . . 1, 3, 4 bookbats . . . . . . . 1, 3, 4, 6 columns . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 12 editing . . . . . . . . . 8, 14, 15 FAX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 INSTALL.BAT . . . . . . . . . . . 8 interim release . . . . . . . 8, 15 International . . . . . . . 5, 6, 8 labels . . . . . . . . . 7, 11-13 landscape . . . . . . . . . 7, 9-11 LETTER . . . . . . . . . 9, 10, 12 memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 ombudsman . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 paper size/type . . . . . . . . 12 PRINTDOC.BAT . . . . . . . . 1, 8 registration . . . . . 1, 3, 4, 6 SETUP . . . . . . . . . . . . 9, 13 shareware . . . . . . . . . 1, 3-7 support . . . . . . . . 1, 3, 4, 6 trouble . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 VENDINFO.DIZ . . . . . . . . 3, 4 Wood Clips . . . . . . . . . . . 4 WPG . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 All Rights Reserved (C) 1992-93 Jerry Stern