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Simple & very good for booklets but needs instructions 
- Version: 1.1.1, 1/28/2004 08:15PM PST
Steve9988
One of the previous posters encouraged me to try this seriously and I'm glad I did. The lack of good instructions had discouraged me when it first came out, and that's still a problem. The developer thinks I know more than I do. I encourage others to try. Maybe this will help: For a test, I used a 17-page Word document with 40 footnotes and a picture but without other sophisticated formatting. I opened it, and in Page Setup I selected "Half Letter" as a paper size, which my printer blessedly allowed. (I suppose I could have created a custom paper size.) I doubled-checked the reformatted doc for glitches, which were easily corrected. I found the standard margins didn't look well, so in Format under Document I changed them to T/B=1"; L/R=0.6; gutter=0.7; no mirror. Your mileage may differ. Under Print, I selected Make PDF. After making sure that BookLightning's preferences called for "Letter," I dropped that PDF file on BookLightning's icon. Presto...a correctly-paged, conveniently-sized booklet. I even think that by going to the obscure "Paper Handling" command in the final Print dialogue, one could select "Print Odd," flip the stack, then "Print Even," and get double-sided, even without an automatic double-sided printer. Very interesting. Photo came out only OK but it may have been the poor paper I used. I've been looking for an OS X ClickBook (which is still OS 9 and is the same $49 price as BookLighning), and this may well be IT. It's a one-trick pony (makes one-fold booklets) but seems to do it well. I'm going to give it a try. Thanks to previous posters.
Old Click Book - Version: 1.1.1, 1/28/2004 05:31PM PST
jazzmanpete
I'm confused. Does this program run the way the old click book used to run. That is, after you finished printing one side of the pages, you just reversed the pages on the printer and printed again to make the book. It seems to me that this program is for a printer that prints on both sides at once, if my understanding is correct.
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- Old Click Book
Terrific program - Version: 1.1, 1/27/2004 12:47AM PST
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donbroadribb
I've used this program in its 1.0 version for nearly a year. This is a terrific little program which does "impositions", which is printers' jargon for taking a document which has consecutive pages, and rearranging the pages so that -- for example -- pages 1 and 32 both fit on one side of one sheet of paper, pages 2 and 31 on a second sheet of paper, and so on down to pages 14 and 15 on one sheet of paper. The result can then be printed out so as to form a booklet.
You first convert your document to a PDF file (on OS X, via the Print command and select PDF), then move the icon of that PDF onto the BookLightning icon. It very quickly -- and I do mean fast! -- does the necessary conversion and gives you a file named "(title-of-document)book.pdf" ready for printing.
One word of caution: make sure you set the print setup dialog in your word processor or whatever to the size of paper you want the two pages to print on. For instance, one A4 size sheet of paper holds two A5 pages, so you set your document's print setup to be A5.
Don Broadribb
You first convert your document to a PDF file (on OS X, via the Print command and select PDF), then move the icon of that PDF onto the BookLightning icon. It very quickly -- and I do mean fast! -- does the necessary conversion and gives you a file named "(title-of-document)book.pdf" ready for printing.
One word of caution: make sure you set the print setup dialog in your word processor or whatever to the size of paper you want the two pages to print on. For instance, one A4 size sheet of paper holds two A5 pages, so you set your document's print setup to be A5.
Don Broadribb
