[ILUG] prospectus maker software

[Conor Daly]

On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 02:01:58PM +0200 or so it is rumoured hereabouts, 
Deim Agoston thought:
> Hello!
> 
> I'm in very big mess. I promised that I will make the prospectus of
> our ltd. I wrote about us, our services but it's only text. We have
> a friend who would do the formating and print it out if we would
> have another week. But we don't have because we need it at last
> Friday morning. I'm just curious is there any formating software
> which would help me out. Our plan is that we make the throwaways
> in A5 format, 4 pages (because we have a very good printer, a Color
> Laser Jet 8550PS). We would print the four pages onto one A4 sheet
> (both side printed) and then bend it. We would just print 200
> prospectus and we can do it ourselves. As long as we had the format.
> So, I'm looking for a software under linux or -throw me a stone- 
> windows which can generate this kind of thing. If I can edit the
> page as it will look would be fine. To be more precise:
> 
> ---------	---------	---------	---------
> |	|	|	|	|	|	|	|
> |	|	|	|	|	|	|	|
> |	|	|	|	|	|	|	|
> |	|	|	|	|	|	|	|
> ---------	---------	---------	---------
> page 1		page2		page 3		page 4
> 
> And then I tell the software to organize them into one four
> pages sheet and save it (just to be calm) and send it to the
> printer. The format doesn't matter but I think eps would be
> the best. So, if you know this kind of software tell me, please.
> Thanks,
> Ago

mpage will do the print layout for you.  You'll need to do the rest of the
document layout elsewhere though.

conor
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