pages, 6.1: 4 up post card with text & image

You can do 5 x 3.5 inch postcards on a landscape Letter document. The approach I took above was for convenience without resizing the postcard template content.

For Landscape Letter, 4-Up postcards

1. Open your choice of Pages postcard template
2. Open a new Blank, Landscape letter document
3. Select every element of one of the postcard objects, and from the Arrange panel, Group. Copy to the Clipboard.
4. In the blank 4-up document, paste your postcard into it.
   1. Because these are 6 x 4 in aspect ratio cards, you will have to ungroup, and reduce the elements to a 5 x 3 proportion. Once done, you can group all elements again.
   2. In the Document panel
      1. Uncheck Header/Footer
      2. Set all document margins to 0.5 in
   3. In the Format panel : Arrange tab : Text Wrap : None
   4. Size: width 5.0 in, height 3.5 in
   5. Drag to upper-left corner of document
5. Design your postcard, either by repurposing the existing card design, or tabula rasa.
   1. The existing design uses placeholder image and placeholder text. If you drop any image onto the placeholder image, it will automatically resize to fill that image space.
   2. When done with your single object card design, duplicate it, position to the right, and then group both.
   3. Duplicate both of your cards, and drag/position into position for your completed 4-up solution.

Here is the USPS postcard sizing guide.

In Pages v6.1.1, create a new Pages document using one of the two-up postcard templates.

In Pages File menu : Page Setup... Add a custom Ledger size with 17.0 in by 11.0 in. Back in Pages v6.1.1, in the Documents panel, select Other and Landscape. Now, you have a ledger document with the front and back of the two-up postcards situated left-justified on the first and second pages.

Select every bit of content in the two postcards by holding the shift key and clicking their elements. Once you have done this, click on the Arrange tab, and group both post cards. Now, duplicate both, drag, and position the duplicate to form your 4-up postcard sheet. Repeat this process for the second page. Save this 4-up solution before you continue to customize it for your purposes. The images are Placeholder images, so simply drag/drop an image onto the existing image to automatically scale to the card.

Looks like this:

No version of Pages over the years has been purposely designed as a business grade word processing application, or Word clone. It continues to be targeted at the consumer market, and if you need greater features, those 34 years of progressive MS Word development can fill a great many Pages gaps.

Correction: Set document margins to 0.25 in.

Final 4-up Letter with rescaled postcards:

...or be able to adapt the Card template:

Which has HOW TO USE instructions on it, which with a minor modification from folding card to 4 up card would do the job.

Peter

Interesting that a "professional" can't arrange 4 duplicated rectangles on a page.

Or recognise that is all it is!

Or work out what size paper they fit on.

Peter

btw This is what I found when I searched on "4 up postcards":

https://discussions.apple.com/search.jspa?currentPage=1&q=4+up+postcards&include ResultCount=true

Peter