layout help

[JeffP]

Hi,

i have been volunteered to layout the calendar for a local pet rescue
charity. they print an 11x17 calendar (portrait mode) with pic on top and
calendar on bottom.
not sure how to lay this out in publisher.
if i set the page size to 11x17 and use the calendar wizard it fills the
entire sheet with just the calendar and if i do a series of 81/2x11 pages i
am not sure how to get them into the right order when they are printed on
paper. i am not sure if this matters or if the printer takes care of the
images being on the right pieces of paper.

tx
Jeff

 

[Odysseus]

i have been volunteered to layout the calendar for a local pet rescue
charity. they print an 11x17 calendar (portrait mode) with pic on top and
calendar on bottom.
not sure how to lay this out in publisher.
if i set the page size to 11x17 and use the calendar wizard it fills the
entire sheet with just the calendar and if i do a series of 81/2x11 pages i
am not sure how to get them into the right order when they are printed on
paper. i am not sure if this matters or if the printer takes care of the
images being on the right pieces of paper.

Talk to the printers. Depending on the software they have, they might
well prefer to receive separate half-pages and impose them themselves.
But if they want the pages supplied as printer's spreads, it's not that
much work to set up a calendar grid using boxes or rules -- once you've
done the layout for one month it can be copied to the remaining pages.

 

[Mike Bailey]

Jeff,

The trick when using the calendar wizard is to set your page size to about
1" lager than the area you want for the actual calendar ‘grid’ area. Create a
new publication that is 8½"x11" (half the 11x17), then paste the calendar
‘grids’ in for each month from the wizard publication onto every second page
of the new publication, since you will have pictures on the other page (page
1 will be the ‘cover’). This is how I’ve done it in the past so that the
stupid wizards don’t mess me up when I make my changes. If the printer you
are dealing with doesn’t have imposition software (I use Preps to do my
imposition) you can then output as a saddle stitched book from publisher.