ChapbookVover & Template

[Mordido]

In Publisher 2003, to produce a chapbook, there's two files: ChapbookCover &
Chapbook Template. If I try to open them individually in Publisher, they
won't open, but I can open them in Word 2003. Can anyone explain to me how to
use Publisher in this case? I just bought the software, and there's much I
don't understand but I want to start my chapbook of poetry. Can I open
Chapbook Cover & template in Word 2003, produce the chapbook, and the what's
Publisher 2003 do?

 

[Mary Sauer]

From where did you receive the Chapbook template?
Chapbooks are basically booklets. If you have a cover you want to use in Publisher;
copy it from Word and paste it into a Publisher document that you have setup as a
booklet.
Word will work okay. Publisher is a page layout application. If your Chapbook is
poetry you may do better with Publisher.
There is a lot of information here:
http://www.wordrunner.com/chapbook/overview.htm

 

[Mordido]

Both the chapbookCover and Template were sent to me in email from a poetry
forum I post to: i.e.

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2005 16:43:50 -0400
From: Pearl Pirie <[email protected]>
Subject: chapbook

Hi Gary,
http://www.ohioreadingroadtrip.org/teachers/chapbook.html has a place where
you can download a chapbook template for Microsoft Word.

I also have an article on using a chapbook template by By John J. Chalmers
of Chalmers Communications Ltd.and a .pub file of a template that I no
longer have the Microsoft publisher software to open it (but it might be in
your Microsoft Office suite?) If they would be of use to you, I can send
them.

Later posts suggested that I had to purchase Publisher to make because these
documents worked best in Publisher, but it seems more and more that I
misunderstood somewhere along the line. Bottomline, is I want to make a
chapbook. I have two files that are supposed to give me the form and even
the covers, so all I need do is write the content. Do I need Publisher? Or,
does Publisher have the ability to create a chapbook with or without these
two document or files?

 

[Mary Sauer]

You certainly don't need to buy Publisher for this project.
You have all the tools you need to do this in Word. With the template you have, all
you have to do is change the wording. I downloaded the template, it is pretty
straightforward.

 

[Mordido]

I appreciate your help, Mary. The reason I pursued this to Publisher is the
Chapbook Template User Guide by By John J. Chalmers
Chalmers Communications Ltd.
442 Reeves Crest
Edmonton, Alberta T6R 2A3
Phone 780-435-8194, Fax 780-430-8151, Email (e-mail address removed)

He instructs the use of Publisher for his templates, and I quote (and these
are only some references) his first two chapters, i.e.

What is a “chapbook� The Canadian Oxford Dictionary defines it as “a small
and often self-published booklet of poetry, stories, etc., usually
saddle-stitched or stapled.†This guide was written to accompany my template
called Chapbook Template, provided in Microsoft Publisher software format
for use on Windows computers to help you produce just such a book at low
cost, quickly and effectively. To create your own chapbook, open the
Chapbook Template in Publisher, and go to work! Feel free to copy and
distribute both this user guide and the template.

In order to use the Chapbook Template, you need to have Microsoft Publisher
software installed on your computer. You will also need to be knowledgeable
in the use of the software and can use your manual to learn how to use
Publisher. This user guide provides information on using the template. It
is not a guide to using Publisher, but does attempt to provide a quick and
easy approach to using the software effectively with a preformatted template
into which you place your poems to build and print the chapbook.


Bottomline, if you don't think Publisher 2003 is necessary, then I follow
your instructions.

 

[Ed Bennett]

Bottomline, if you don't think Publisher 2003 is necessary, then I
follow your instructions.

If the template you are using is in .doc format and works with Microsoft
Word, then it is easiest to use Microsoft Word.

If the template is in .pub format and works with Microsoft Publisher, then
it is easiest to use Microsoft Publisher.

The book you quote recommends Publisher as the template included with the
book is in Publisher format (or so it says). If you were to use that
template, then Publisher would be the way to go. As you are using a
different template to the one the book refers to, different advice applies.

That's the bottom line.

 

[John Wester]

Mary,

It's been four years since you posted this. If I had your email I'd post you
directly so I have little hope my question will be answered. I want to
publish a chapbook using 8.5 x 11 paper, four up. I will take them to Kinkos
to print the 4-up pages, double sided. I will get them to cut the sheets f,
each sheet then being 5.5 by 8.5 I want to be able to stack the sheets and
saddle staple them to create a chapbook with all the pages in the right
order. I've done this a dozen times by hand, literally cutting and pasting
and I had my own saddleback stapler. I'm too old for that, there's got to be
an easier way.

Thanks if you can help.

John Wester
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Mary Sauer]

Publisher 2007 cannot setup two booklets on one sheet of paper. It is a bug that
is to be fixed in the next service pack. This is why I suggested the setting up
as a custom size.
My email is

mary-sauer at columbus.rr.com

 

[John Wester]

Mary,

Thank you very much. I searched and searched and just couldn't figure out
how to do 4-up on an 8.5 x 11 sheet. And it's hard to explain the problem
because most people don't know what 4-up means, or what it's for. But what
you end up with is a chapbook that is 4.25 x 5.5 and saddleback stapled. My
son is an artist and does the covers for me which I put on heavier stock. The
last chapbook of poetry that I put out was 18 years ago, but I've got 15 more
to publish if I wanted to, but I just don't have the patience any more to cut
and paste.

You said it was a "bug" in Publisher 2007? Did that feature exist before?
For example, on one sheet of say a 30 page chapbook you'd have page1 and page
29 at the top and pages 3 and 27 at the bottom. The next page, which would be
printed on the back of the first page would have page 2 and page 30 at the
top and pages 4 and 26 at the bottom so that when the sheets were cut in half
you'd be able to stack them, staple them, fold them and come up with a
chapbook.

Perhaps I didn't need to explain all that but in your response, you said
Publisher 2007 could not not set up "two" booklets on one sheet of paper.
It's not two booklets, just one, with all the pages in the correct order for
a saddleback stapled chapbook. I'm not all that handy with publishing
softwear but I've been looking for this feature for 18 years. I know it must
be out there, how else would publishers do it?

Thanks again, Mary, and I hope I didn't bore you with the details.

John