How can I print pages with the borderline? It's an option under Layout, but when selected does not print for a one-up (5.5 x 8.5) setup. I want to use the borderline to check my margins.
The border option is only relevant when more than one Pages per Sheet is selected. This is so that you can see the relative edge of the pages when they are scaled to fit onto one sheet.
What is it that you want to check about your margins? Do you doubt the accuracy of their dimension? If so you could place some shapes in appropriate places on your page (like unfilled rectangles or lines of a particular size) and delete them after you are satisfied that the margins are correct.
If it is something else, let us know and we'll see what we can do to help.
I need to print the pages with crop marks, actually, for the printer. How do I do that? And, the page dimensions appear wider in preview than they are in page set up.
Pages doesn't directly support the production of crop marks like some of the more expensive tools do.
We have little information about your document but does the name you have chosen imply that you are trying to get your printer to impose multiple pages of your document on to one so they can be folded into a booklet? If so, CocoaBooklet might be of help to you.
I'm not sure what you mean by 'page dimensions appear wider in preview than they are in page set up'. Could you elaborate?
the page setup is 8.5x5.5. when I save it to pdf/postscript, the file is larger, as if there's a white border around the original size. the printer would have to manually cut off the white border ... he needs the ps file in with the 8.5x5.5 dimensions.
can i convert a pages file to cocoa booklet? i can't start over, as i'm on deadline.
I don't work with inches and US paper sizes so bear with me...
Your original post said that your document is 5.5 x 8.5. Is that 5.5 wide and 8.5 tall i.e. half a sheet of US Legal paper?
Are you trying to print on US Legal paper with portrait orientation set? I'm just wondering if your printer hardware is handling a paper size mismatch by centering the smaller page image on larger paper.
can i convert a pages file to cocoa booklet? i can't start over, as i'm on deadline.
You can think of CocoaBooklet as a software printer to use with Pages once your document is complete. It does the imposition for you afterwards. CocoaBooklet is quite well described
here.
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