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user-inactivated  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: October 3, 2018

    Welp, the PDF option isn’t working; the printer keeps flipping the pages in the wrong direction so half the book is upside down.

Is there a check/radio box in the print dialog that says something like "flip on short edge" (if your pages are portrait) or "flip on long edge" (if your pages are landscape) by chance?





_refugee_  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

So doing that worked on my home computer. Clicking that on my work computer is NOT working.

I may have found a successful way to print but I got distracted by doing work things and I have to figure out which printer is the color one now. Using the PDF booklet setting prevents one from clicking around on the “bind on short edge/bind on long edge” option for some reason.

Keep your fingers crossed.

tacocat  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I just did trial and error. I had your same problem. I think it's the printer software because I had the problem on my Mac

_refugee_  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I got it printing right but now it refuses to print color, Hagar I decided to just shoot off 12 copies and color the one illustration w/color by hand. It’s one color.

I like DIY stuff like this a lot because you can just say fuck it, we’ll do whatever works, I don’t care if I color in 12 red birds by hand and anyone who does care can just go not buy or read it.

Imperfections make the thing.

tacocat  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have a hand lettered version of my book in part because imposing it with software was a pain in the ass

tacocat  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There is on my printer. I made a book too and there was a lot of trial and error. And now I don't remember which options I chose. I also have a Mac

user-inactivated  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

"flip on short edge" for portrait and "flip on long edge" for landscape means you want to open your book vertically, like a calendar.

tacocat  ·  2003 days ago  ·  link  ·  

There's a booklet setting in my page layout options and I don't remember if I had to click that or not. I was also getting upside-down pages. I'm agreeing with the caveat that I remember it being more complicated