Shrinking output when printing 2 up.

I did that, and it messes up the display to the screen

While some other sizes can be chosen in Paper Handling while printing, that no margin Letter size can not. Letter borderless can, and there I still have the scaling issue.

It displays fine on screen 1 page at a time, or 2, but when trying to print 2 pages even the little preview window before printing looks fine. Then printing, or what I know do, preview in PDF to save paper and ink since this is not working, always shrinks.

The reason to have a template set up for 5.5 Wide by 8.5 high, is so that you can have different headers and footers on each page.

It is how a book looks.

So then this looks right when viewing the display, the monitor. Now going to print that out, since 5.5 x 2 is 11, 11 by 8.5 is a letter size piece of paper in Landscape. Thus if I want to print 2 of my 5.5 by 8.5 to 1 page, then should that not work.

What happens is that it does print 2 to a page, but it shrinks down the result by 10 to 20 percent. The font is reduced and the margin has grown larger.

I have reset the choice of paper in paper handling to letter paper both with border or borderless so that it knows we are printing on an Letter size paper.

So it is not a question of following instructions. There is some control code somewhere that is making things shrink.

If one were to print the item as 1 page to a sheet, then the fonts do not shrink, the margin does not increase.

Walt, that does not necessarily work either. Layout and setting the margins for half page works well enough, but selecting all is only selects the text, not the Header area, not the writing area, which then is not grouped and then can't be draged over.

Not trying to do that either. I do want the pages to print from 1 to 80 in sequence on one side of the page.

Think of it this way. Take a regular sheet of paper and fold it in half so it 5.5 by 8.5
One side of that is the template for your writing. If you ask the computer to print that one template on the paper, it prints it at full size. Well you have a whole other side not being used, so you want page 2 on that other half side. Printed at the same size as the first half. You want the header where you are tracking page numbers to advance for each half of the page.

I can't get it to do this.

It might work better in Adobe Reader Printing out all the PDF for the 5.5 wide and then having it print 2 to a page there.

Peter, it must be the way we each speak english.

CocoaBooklet doesn't work and doesn't work for me on Snow Leopard.

it is not imposition. I am not printing out a newsletter and not folding a sheet over 4 times. I do not want to print on both sides of the page and have it be a book. I want to get an edit copy at original size with out the program deciding to reduce things.

My template is 1/2 the width of a landscaped letter page, and if you print one of these per page it looks great. When you ask the computer to make use of the other side of the page, it looks like ****.

I think I have explained it several ways to address this, and i think you are not getting it. It is possible that Pages can't recreate it this. If you happen to know that is true, then telling me I am explaining myself poorly or telling me my solution is something I do not want does not help.

I have been in Apple Computing since 1981. There are things that even Mac Fans can't get to work. I spent yesterday reading both the missing manual documentation and the Apple Pages documentation and both are very light in regards to printing.

If you have found a solution because you have taken the time to have done what I am trying to do before and seen that it works, or have taken the time to recreate my predicament and then gone ahead and made it work, thank you. I don't get the feeling that is the case though.

The only thing I do get is your commenting that OS X is adding a margin. So how does one work around that? Does one right terminal code? Is there some system preference on printing to disable it? It has been pointed out to me before to request aid here, and then point out that there is a bug.

If this margin is causing everything to shrink then it seems bug like to me.

What I am doing is getting two things done at once.

By this printing method, I get an edit copy of a novel I have written. I then can read through it (with a lot better use of space, then printing everything doubles spaced in manuscript submission form) and edit it.

The second thing is that i can get a look at the work in a prepublication state. What it will look like when laid out as a book (But i dont need to collate with double sided printing.)

When I print with the way things are now, it shrinks, which is pretty much unacceptable. Then I can't see how the work will look when typeset. I think that expresses my goals. It is a drag though that I have to a third program because Pages is mostly (I was going to write completly) versatile.

Amazon has a subsidiary called Create Space where you send them a PDF and they will print out a bound book for you. If you completed the NaNoWriMo in November and wrote at least 50,000 words, they are giving this away for free. So I am attempting to do this correctly and would like to see it before I send it to be printed.

It makes you both the writer and the publisher for this...

Walt's part 2

I set this up as text boxes but I have 70+ pages of half size text and I am not getting the template to add additional pages when I paste that material in.