DIY Planner - How to utilize Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 1 - January 2008 classic booklet (2-up, duplex) - Comments

Link to this excellent article

Theodore — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 19:49:47 -0500

If it hasn't been done already, can the sys admin link to this article from within the "templates" page?

Yep

javajeb — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:49:57 -0500

It's java, so it's portable. Just need java on your Windows box. The homepage should let you know what versions work.

I have it on my XP box. The one oddity I have is that running as a non-admin, I had some issues with either multivalent or pdfsam. I think the latter, but I'm not sure.

HTH,
Jason
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It is Java. It works anywhere

ygor — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 02:09:34 -0500

I did these examples on my work-WinDoze laptop
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Is Multivalent compatible with Windows???

Anonymous — Sun, 6 Jan 2008 01:06:58 -0500

Ygor, does Multivalent work on Windows? (Pls excuse but I know you prefer Mac's so I suspect it wouldn't). I looked at the home page and it looks interesting but not at all informative. If it will work with Win then I'll download it and start playing with it.

Thanks,
Glenda

How to utilize Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 1 - January 2008 classic booklet (2-up, duplex)

ygor — Wed, 2 Jan 2008 16:21:48 -0500

At the risk of tooting my own horn, I have provided a great set of tools here for folks to use. At least that's what a lot of the feedback says :)

At the same time, there is a certain amount of grumbling and confusion, so I thought I would show some specific examples of what you can do with these tools.

For this example, I created pages to cover the month of January with DIY_Two_Page_Week (Attachment: 4 weeks)

This is 10 pages. When you are making 2-up, duplex documents, each sheet of paper is 4 pages, so I need two more pages -- a front and back cover.

For the back, I created a 2008-2009 reference calendar with DIY_Two_Year_Ref (Attachment: 2 year ref sheet). For the front, I split up the PDF file in the classic covers using the Multivalent Split command like this:

This goes all on one linejava -classpath .\Multivalent20060102.jar tool.pdf.Split -verbose -1 diyp3_core_cl.pdf

and then picked out the large monkey cover (my favorite) and renamed it for easy use (Attachment: monkey cover)

Now for the Black Magic:

Merge the three documents together using Multivalent-Merge

This goes all on one linejava -classpath .\Multivalent20060102.jar tool.pdf.Merge -verbose diyp3_cover_cl-monkey-large.pdf Weeks-2008-01.pdf 2007-2008.pdf

The result was a file named "diyp3_cover_cl-monkey-large-m.pdf"
I wanted to keep the file, so I renamed it to "diyp-2008-01-booklet-a.pdf"
Rearrange the page order and set the pages 2-up so this can be printed duplex on letter paper

This goes all on one linejava -classpath .\Multivalent20060102.jar tool.pdf.Impose -verbose -dim 2x1 -paper 11x8.5in -page 12,1,2,11,10,3,4,9,8,5,6,7 diyp-2008-01-booklet-a.pdf

The page number sequence is something I worked out and whipped up a bit of source code to do the grunt work for me. See How to Arrange Pages for 2-Up Duplex Printing for details.

The resulting file, "diyp-2008-01-booklet-a-up.pdf" is attached -- (Finished Booklet). It was printed out onto letter size paper, double sided, flipping on the short side. The resulting 3 sheets were folded in half, together, to form a nice booklet for the month of January.

Multivalent is found here with complete documentation.

As always, holler if you have questions.

D*I*Y Planner - How to utilize Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 1 - January 2008 classic booklet (2-up, duplex) - Comments

Link to this excellent article

Yep

It is Java. It works anywhere

Is Multivalent compatible with Windows???

How to utilize Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 1 - January 2008 classic booklet (2-up, duplex)

DIY Planner - How to utilize Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 1 - January 2008 classic booklet (2-up, duplex) - Comments