HOW DO I MAKE A BANNER USING MULTIPLE PIECES OF PAPER

[PADDYWACKS]

USING PUBLISHER 2003

HELP! Seems like this should not be hard to do, but I am stumped. Don't
want to pay for one continuous piece of banner paper, but want to piece
together paper to form a "fake" banner

Using Paper size : 11 x 17

4 sheets of it to total 44" wide

I need to type a long word like "CLEARANCE" on top line and "SALE" on bottom
line

6" high font and want it to center on the 4 pieces of paper (filling it like
a banner when pieces are taped together).

So page 1 would have "CL" on top half of paper, lower half blank
Page 2 would have "EA", lower half would have "SA"
Page 3 "RA" on top, lower "LE"
etc...
I can't figure out how to do this & have letters consistently the right size
& spacing.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks . . .

 

[John Inzer]

USING PUBLISHER 2003

HELP! Seems like this should not be hard to do, but I am stumped.
Don't want to pay for one continuous piece of banner paper, but want
to piece together paper to form a "fake" banner

Using Paper size : 11 x 17

4 sheets of it to total 44" wide

I need to type a long word like "CLEARANCE" on top line and "SALE" on
bottom line

6" high font and want it to center on the 4 pieces of paper (filling
it like a banner when pieces are taped together).

So page 1 would have "CL" on top half of paper, lower half blank
Page 2 would have "EA", lower half would have "SA"
Page 3 "RA" on top, lower "LE"
etc...
I can't figure out how to do this & have letters consistently the
right size & spacing.

Any help would be appreciated!
Thanks . . .

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Go to...File / Page Setup...and enter the
size of the completed project...17 x 44...
for example. The graphic will show how
many sheets it will print.

When the printing is complete...you'll have
to assemble the banner by aligning the crop
marks on the printed pages.

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[PADDYWACKS]

Thanks for taking time to answer. I've been messing with it and CANNOT find
my correct paper option of 11 x 17 (though there are scads of options I've
never heard of!), so the number of pages & layout is incorrect. I'm going to
take it to Staples to print out, so maybe they can fix it if I can't override
Publisher's paper size option to the 11x17 the office stores have in their
print center.

Thanks again -

 

[John Inzer]

Thanks for taking time to answer. I've been messing with it and
CANNOT find my correct paper option of 11 x 17 (though there are
scads of options I've never heard of!), so the number of pages &
layout is incorrect. I'm going to take it to Staples to print out,
so maybe they can fix it if I can't override Publisher's paper size
option to the 11x17 the office stores have in their print center.

Thanks again -

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I thought you wanted a banner? In Page Setup...your
correct size would be the completed size of the entire
project...not the size of an individual page.

--

John Inzer
Digital Media MVP

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk

 

[Mary Sauer]

Do you have a printer that can print tabloid (11 x 17)? For your banner to be
successful you need to setup your printer for 11 x 17 and then setup your banner
for 17 x 44. If you have an overlap, the banner will be five pages.

If you don't have a printer that can handle this size paper then your best
solution would be to print it to a PDF printer. There are free converters
around. The setup would be the same, setup the PDF printer for a custom size.