Two Pages Per Day v1.1i

This is the next installment of the Digital Templates, a series of cross platform applications that should ease the load on the folks who make calendar templates.

This program generates two-page daily templates based upon the settings you choose (dates, margins, and so forth), and uses the basic D*I*Y Planner look and feel as developed by Douglas Johnston. On the left side of the spread is a daily page, dated, with three mini-calendars, an appointments section, a task list, and an expenses area. On the right page is a daily journal for notes and other important information.

This is multi-platform software. Below are download links for pre-built, static, binary applications for both Windows and Mac OS X as well as the source code. Through the Nordic Magic of the Qt Libraries, both of these applications were built from the same source code. This source can be built on any platform supported for Qt 4.3, including Linux.

Here's a shot of the Mac version:



And here's the Windows version:


Basic instructions:

  • Be sure you have the font "Blue Highway" installed as it is hard coded into the application
  • Use the "Page Setup" button to set paper size and margins
    Use the arrows to either side of the month name on the calendar widget to set the first month for display.
  • Set your line width to look good on the display.
  • The "Print" button will send the page through your printer drivers.
  • The "Save PDF" button will create a PDF file.
  • INTERNATIONALIZATION: Two simple changes -- the addition of translation files, and the addition of a locale string in parentheses in the title bar. The string in the title bar lets you know what your system is looking for. The translation file name is "DIY_Two_Page_Day_LOCALE.qm" For the translations to work, the string in the title bar has to match the LOCALE part of the translations file and the translation file needs to be located in the same directory as the application. A slight renaming of the translation file may be necessary as the locale consists of both a language and a country indicator.

And here's the French version:


And here's the Dutch version:


Please let me know if you encounter problems. More to come....

Current known problems:
On the Mac, there is still (sometimes) an issue with PDFs and Adobe Acrobat Reader. Use Preview to view/print any PDFs you create if you have problems with Reader.

License:
License granted to me (Dan White) by Douglas Johnston to duplicate the D*I*Y Planner forms look and feel under the Creative Commons NC-ND License. The source code is declared under GNU GPL.

Language:
That's part of the Nordic Magic. It should be multi-lingual. Please let me know if you have any language related difficulties

Version History:

  • 1.0 Initial Release
  • 1.1i International Support !! and PDF button

[From DJ: Let me say how very --nay, ecstatically happy I am that Ygor has developed an easy and dynamic way of generating calendar pages for different sizes and configurations. It saves me a heck of a lot of tedious manual work, and it allows multiple page sizes to boot. Thanks, Ygor!]

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DIY_Two_Page_Day v1.1i Windows2.71 MB
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Very cool

Hi ygor.

Thanks for this, this is cool.

One minor point. When I change the page size to 3x5, the headers in boxes look rather squished, even though there's white space to spare at the right of the header. The size appears to be larger in the "Daily Journal" box than the other three, but Daily Tasks is the most squished looking. The leftover white space is larger than it really needs to be, aesthetically.

Also, 3x5 is so small the past and future months are obliterated, but not completely. :) You can see the month names and day names, but none of the day numbers. Perhaps 3x5 is out of scope for the dynamic templates. :)

Note: This is on Windows.

If you want a PDF, let me know.

Note for future requests section: It would be lovely to set the height of the appointment lines separately from the tasks and journal lines. That would allow me to get more hours of appointments in but still use my preferred .20" line spacing for the rest of the areas. This, too, is for 3x5s, I'm sure the 'problem' disappears with the larger size papers.

shris

Response

Thanks for the PDF offer. I tried Hipster size and saw what you described.

I'll check the code for the header sizes and tinker with the whitespace.

As far as the months, I agree that at Hipster size, the two little-little months went beyond readablilty :)

Ideas that come to my mind are:

  • Add a toggle to let you turn them off
  • Move them to the bottom of the opposite page

I am open to suggestion.

As to the line height settings, I will consider it. When I have a prototype, I'll "buzz" you thru the Contact tab to let you try it before releasing it.

Also, folks, I plan to add the option of flipping the pages around to accomodate the folks who prefer the journal on the left, but I wanted to get this first version out as quickly as possible.

Keep them suggestions coming. This stuff is for you folks.
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Toggles

Hi.

If you're adding toggles to shut things off, you might add a toggle for the hour numbers. That might solve the issue of hours, folks could write in whatever hours they actually use.. I've heard folks complain of that before on other, older strings about various templates that have been submitted.

As far as toggling the little calendars, that would be a fine solution. Moving to the bottom of the other page would work too, though I'm wondering what happens with the 'fancier' printing concepts. Personally, I print back to back, with the 'daily' page on the right and the journal on the reverse side. So all my days are right-side days, with the journal on the back. I remove old days, so I don't see the previous journal page when I'm looking at today.

Dunno if that made any sense.

Also, there's a *very* short step between what you have here and a one-page-per-day layout..just shut off the journal page and you have it, assuming you use symmetrical margins.

shris

One Page Templates - A nice idea

Thanks for the feedback
I will "buzz" you when I have something for you to test.
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Different usage; same layout

So all my days are right-side days, with the journal on the back. I remove old days, so I don't see the previous journal page when I'm looking at today.

Interesting. I have used the Filofax "Time management" equivalent of these pages. The day page is the right-hand one as per this style but the left-hand one is the journal for the right-hand day. I can therefore see the day's activities at a glance. So my planner always contains at least one prior day so that the "journal" page for today is still visible.

I've not ordered a new Filofax insert for 2008 yet. Perhaps now is the time to switch over to D*I*Y pages instead. Printing out only the next batch of pages (I typically keep six weeks of day pages in my binder) as necessary could save a little on paper storage.

However, I rely on scheduling some appointments (e.g. doctor, dentist, annual car service) anything up to six months ahead and these I write on the appropriate page immediately the booking is made to save me the embaressment of forgetting them. I'd have to change my behaviour if I switched to print-on-demand.

Future planning

Hi.

I print-on-demand, one month at a time. For future planning, I keep one-page-per-month also in the same book, behind the daily section. On the day I print my daily pages, I transfer any appointments I've written on that future month to the appropriate days.

Example: I might schedule a January doc appointment right now, but I haven't printed Jan pages yet. So I put the appointment on my one-page-per-month calendar (one side is the calendar, the reverse is a list so I can write the details of appts). When I print out January's daily pages, I'll write in whatever I have pre-booked onto the newly-printed pages, as well as any day-before type reminders to keep me from being surprised on the day of the appointment.

I don't have that many appointments scheduled this way--usually I stuff all these into Outlook when I get back home/office, which also helps keep me from being surprised, since I use a weekly view of appts in Outlook as well as using day-before alarms for particularly big stuff.

Anyway, all of this keeps my planner size to a minimum--the remainder of the current month, one page for each of the future months in the year, and if it's near the end of the month, the next month's pages too. Not more than 45 pages of days and not more than 12 pages of months.

shris
shris

Great tool

I think this is a great tool! Seriously appreciate your going through the effort to create it. One problem though... I have the Blue Highway font installed but when I print the pages, the date is missing. But just the number... The large "10" for December 10 does not print. Nor is it there if I print to a pdf instead.

Still a great tool and I will likely still use it.

Thanks again!

The font is now suspect

On another thread, the possibility of "Blue Highway" being corrupt was raised. It looks like it may be true.
I can offer two choices:
We can all decide on a new "Official" font,
or I can add a font selector and you can do what you please. The only potential downside to a font selector is that some fonts may mess up the layout, so if I give you all the choice, I want no gripes about a certain font not working. That's what started this mess. :)
Deal ?
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Hi. Just wanted to add a 'me

Hi.

Just wanted to add a 'me too' regarding the issue with the large date not printing. I downloaded Blue Highway to the computer in question just today and tried printing to multiple printers and PDF -- all had the date missing.

I think it would be better to find a font that's more reliable or more available and use that in the application. It's an awesome piece of work as is -- it just needs a font that's not buggy. Font selection would be great in theory, but I suspect that it would make the page layout much more complex: trying to account for different character widths and heights, monospace vs proportional, et cetera.

Tal

(At this rate, Ben Franklin and Stephen Covey are going to show up at your door with some concrete shoes they want you to try on. ;) )

Had the same problem. Date

Had the same problem. Date did not appear. Neither did any of the text on the calender sections?

Mac or PC ?

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PC

PC

OldProblemSolved. NewProblemEncountered

Hey, Just thought I wld let you know that I solved the problem. Had not installed the font properly :0. Thanks for everything. Just one problem. Printed the first half of the year for the day per two pages. Wanted to print the second half but it starts printing from the month of December so I have to print the whole thing again. Any way of solving that problem? Thanks for everything. I LOVE the planner.

Date Ranges

On the left side of the program window is the small monthly-view calendar, and date boxes below that, where you set your date range for the days you want to print. Just change your start date to June (or whenever). If you're printing directly from the App, that should do it.

If you printed the whole year to a PDF file initially, when you open the file in Adobe Reader, you'll need to scroll through and see what page to start printing from.

Reese

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Great Work

I showed this work around to a few people in the office and a few have taken an interest. Our Company stop buying FC for us many years ago.

I do have one issue when printing. I get the form and the day of the week printed, but the Month names over the calendars, the big days date, and the time in the appt do not print.

I did notice the notes on the font problem and can live with picking my fonts. I'll just change the font until it fits. What about using something like ARIAL or another typical font that is common?

Another option that could be consider is the Appointments. Allow the user to select the number of hour in the Appoints trading off with the number of lines/space there is in the spot below the Appts.

Second what a date for the Journal page? I would not do it until you have the left/right hand option worked in. But there may be times I have to copy my journal page.

Like I said, love the work that you have done.

Another thought on options

I have to agree with the line of thought that says to just pick a new font, similar to Blue Highway, to keep the feel of Doug's DIY templates. I think giving users the option to pick will cause alot of problems and headaches.

Other thoughts:
1) An option for the format of the notes page - via a merge with your DIY Notes generator - rather than just the lined page you have now.
2) Rather than limiting the appt block to X hours, with a start time of our choice, could we choose both start and finish, then fill in below with black lines?

Great work as always ygor - too bad it's being hindered by a wonky font now. :(

Reese

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Printing as page-per-day with separate notes

This is probably too obvious to mention, but hey ho. I love this version, but I don't really use the journal as a journal, more as a scratch pad for notes during the day, so I don't particularly want to keep it after the day in question. So I've saved a month as PDF and have printed duplex odd pages then multiple duplex copies of the journal pages. You don't get the calendar page on the same side each day, which I know is important to some, but it means you can throw away the notes page - and valuable space on those Circa rings - without losing any of the design's function.

Kate
ktb

Whatever works !

FYI: Everything to date has been "Two Pages per..." and there is interest in "One Page per..." versions.

And it ain't hard to do.

Stay tuned. More to follow.
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link

Hi Ygor, very many thanks for doing all these page makers. I love them. I have one suggestion: maybe a link to these template series can be put in the template section? That makes it easier to find I think. Or maybe some other place to put a link?

Error starting from January 2008?

Hi,

I can't seem to get the "start date" to start beyond December 31, 2007. Can someone tell me if this is a glitch and when it might be fixed, or if I am doing something wrong? I want my calendar to start 1/1/2008 (or maybe 1/15/2008), but can't seem to get it to do that.

Eric

A bit tricky

The start date cannot be after the displayed month, nor can the stop date be before it.
So, you have to use the arrow to the right of the displayed month date to move the displayed month forward.
Then, you will probably have to move the month to January, and THEN move the year to 2008.
A bit counter-intuitive, but hat's the way these DateEdit widgets work.
I doubt the Qt-Trolls will change them, but you can always submit a bug-report to them if you want.
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Tricky yes, but it worked

Ygor,

Thank you SO much for the fast response. Your solution worked, as clunky as it may seem. I did have to select January 2007 first, then move the displayed date to January 2008, then move the year to 2008 to get it to work.

Still having trouble getting the date (large # above the month and year) to print... Also, as more constructive feedback I would LOVE to have the option to *not* print the Journal pages. As someone else commented, these tend to get in the way of the way some people (me, for example) like to use the pages.

Thanks again for the lightning-fast response. It helped!

Eric

More major improvements !! Check it out !!

If anyone wants more language support, I need volunteer translators or I will use The Babel-Fish
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Am I doing this wrong?

I can only get it to print out what ever is in the first day field, but if i go out multiple months, it will print the day for those months too. ie January 3, 2008 is the first day and the last day is december 31, 2008, when i hit save PDF, I get Jan 3, 2008, Feb 3, march 3, apr 3, etc...

Am I doing something wrong?

I'm using Windows XP

BTW the actual date in the upper corner never prints it shows on the PDF but never prints(this could be an issue with the margins or something on the printer I'm using, Sharp AR-M550N)

My fault !! Too many separate versions.

The print routine is indeed jumping by a whole month between pages instead of by a single day.

I'll get a fix in tonight.
Thanks for catching that
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Thanks ygor, you might also

Thanks ygor, you might also want to check the default save name, its coming up as DIY_Two_Page_Month.pdf instead of DIY_Two_Page_Day.pdf

Yes, saw it

That was part of the clue trail I followed to find the problem.

Thanks for the notification. I'd rather get more than I need than too few.
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Try it now. I fixed the code

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resizing

Hi. I am missing something obvious - what settings do I use to make it the classic size (8.5x5.5)
Thanks so much!!!

Use the Page Setup, Luke

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Two Page per day

I really love this layout but can't seem to get it to print. I like the general layout when saved to a pdf but it will only save one day at a time even though I have multiple dates in the setttings.

Describe your system, please

Mac ? PC ? What version OS ?
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Windows XP

Windows XP

anyone having trouble saving PDF?

Is anyone having trouble saving to PDF? I am resizing to hipster, and when I save to PDF, the dynamic template goes blank, and the PDF says there's so many pages, but nothing on them. What am I doing wrong?

Try these...

Hipster January 2008 (Monday)
Hipster January 2008 (Sunday)
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YOU ARE THE GREATEST YGOR!!!!

THANKS SO MUCH! i've been trying everything to get this done tonight! You're the greatest!

THANKS YGOR

Any way you can tell me how you did this (in a "for dummies" way) so I can do it for the rest of the year?
I did everything I could think of and couldn't get it to do this...

I just set the page size

to index card size. If your printer can print index cards, there should be a page setting for that size. Use the "Page Setup" button.
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What if your printer doesn't have that size?

My laser printer doesn't do index cards so there's no 3x5 page setting. I can squish the form down by forcing the margins of to proper 3x5 margins, but I worry this is bad for the program somehow. I've tried setting the page margins to 3x5 margins, but those don't seem to reduce the size of the form; every time I make a PDF with those settings, it comes out in Adobe as regular letter size. I've been tinkering all evening to see if I can get it to work with the page margins the way it should work, but it refuses.

Can you not do custom sizes?

Can you not do custom sizes?

After poking around my printer's documentation...

the answer seems to be no. Rats.

What make/model of printer ?

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It's a Dell 1720.

I got it before I found this site or I might've gone for one that's a little more customizable!

You could use the Manual Feeder

According to this page of the manual, the Manual Feeder can handle paper from 3x5 in. to 8.5x14 in.

Unfortunately, one sheet at a time.

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What the heck?

I swear I checked the manual! I must need to wash my glasses.

I'll stick a 3x5 in the manual feeder when I get home and see what it does. Thanks for finding that!

It worked! No, wait.

Okay, I stuck a 3x5 in there and it printed! The top half of the card. :/ I think this is because I've got the 3x5 card centered in a 8.5x11 page.

I'm going to go bug the Dell people now... I reinstalled my printer drivers but there's still nothing like a custom paper size option. I'm somewhat befuddled because I thought this was a fairly standard option.

Oh well! Thank you for trying :)

Edited to add: After an hour and a half with Dell support (no, really), the answer is that while the manual paper tray can take 3x5 cards, 3x5 cards are not a paper size commonly put in printers, and so there is no option for that paper size, or to create that paper size, with this printer. The only thing I can think of now is to try some kind of PDF merging mojo to create a 6x10 block to print on letter-sized paper and trim the heck out of it.

Or upgrade to half-letter-sheet size. :P

Custom sizes, but the PDFs are messed up

Okay, I got a HP Deskjet D4260 which does custom sizes. Hurray! I can pick the correct paper size (3x5) and it clips it down nicely. Hurray! But the PDFs generated are 200x.04" paper size. Boo. I've tried it with both Two-Pages-Per-Day and Two-Pages-Per-Week, with the same results. Any advice?

Can you print directly ?

I'm working on an update.
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I can, yes

I just was wondering if there was a fix for it I didn't know about. Thank you so much! I'll print directly for the time being.

trouble saving pdf

Hi, I have the same problem.
Saving to pdf with paper size 3x5 for my hipster. The program goes blank and an empty pdf is genrated, it is not empty but a lot of pages with nothing on.

Is there something Iam doing wrong?
br Tony

Thanks

Wow, I have been looking for this for a few years now. Been buying mediocre pages from book shops. Never been satisfied with off the shelf stuff. I am trying to print the pages on an A4 sheet to fit my compact 6 ring binder, having trouble to arrive at a print size of 7in x 4 in. Hope to get around it soon. Any ideas.

Best regards

Sridhar

Does your printer have a "Custom Paper Size" feature ?

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Printing

Hi, I'm trying to arrange the two-page per day template so I can get two pages on one side of a 8.5 x 11 sheet, landscape oriented. I thought the A4 size would do this, but I can't seem to get it to work. Do I need to do a custom size or will one of the presets work?

Thanks!

No -- 2-up on Letter is Classic

You can either try printing 2-up or use a tool like Multivalent to merge Classic pages into 2-up letter size.

Look here for a specific example to follow
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save to pdf

Ygor,

Need some help. I downloaded and installed # Two Pages Per Day v1.1i on a windows XP Pro machine. I am able to save to pdf in a letter size but that is all. When I save to smaller size ( for example a statement/classic size) the pdf that is saved is blank. There is nothing to print. I have installed the Blue Highway font and my printer (Xerox Phaser 8550), prints this size so I am not sure what I am doing wrong....I do have Adobe Acrobat 8 professional installed on this machine. I have also tried to run this program on a Windows XP home addition without the Acrobat to see if that was interfering but it has the same results. Any suggestions...

Are you setting the page size ?

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Yes

In the page setup, I set the page size to statement. I click the save as pdf. the right section that shows the preview of the calendar layout goes blank. I look to the folder where the file is to be saved and it shows a very small pdf was created but it is blank as well.

What happens....

.... if you print instead of making a pdf? Does that work?

-Jon

Yes that works...

That works just fine. It's the save to PDF that is not working... I was hoping to save to PDF and then make this editable. I am note sure if I can do that with ADOBE Acrobat Pro or not... but I was going to make a try of it.

Correction ... it sort of works....

Most of the template works the numeric value of the day does not show up over the Month and Year. It is highlighted in the calendar and does change with each page printed. So I can live with that. just have to pay close attention.

Also, I did a print range of April 14th to April 17th and it continued to print past the 17th until I cancelled the print job. I am not sure if that is a function of the printer or the dynamic template program sending information to the printer...

Thanks

Thanks for the help on this Ygor.... Will do a search for virtual print to PDF....

Bypass the PDF button for now

Use one of those utilities that give you a virtual printer that makes PDF's

I'm revising the code.
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Correction ... it sort of works....

Most of the template works the numeric value of the day does not show up over the Month and Year. It is highlighted in the calendar and does change with each page printed. So I can live with that. just have to pay close attention.

Also, I did a print range of April 14th to April 17th and it continued to print past the 17th until I cancelled the print job. I am not sure if that is a function of the printer or the dynamic template program sending information to the printer...

Cannot select June 2008

Hello.

This program is very good, I used it to create Mays day pages.

I am however experiencing problems with trying to print June 2008.

Today is 30th May. When i first start the program, it displays and selects todays date.

It will not however let me move forward to next month (June) or any date in the future.
If i play around, seecting different things, I can get it to move to tomorrow (31st May 2008) but not further.

Any ideas?

I am just going to select 31st May and print until end July to get round it at the minute, 2 extra pages will not do too much harm. :)

Reards
Gavin Phoenix

It's a bit tricky

The Qt date widget is a bit non-intuitive.
Here's how to "do it". (I'm doing this a step at a time with a copy of the application running as I type this)

The default date selection is today for both first/last so that default is to print only 2 pages.

The widgets are set so that the last day must be AFTER the first day, so you should start by setting the LAST day.
I clicked on "May" in "Last Day" then clicked the up-arrow once. I now have "June 30,2008".
Next I click on the "1" which is June 1st to set the displayed date to June 1, 2008
Now, to set the "First Day", you have to decrement the day from May 30 to May 1, then increment the month from May to June.

Now I have a range of June 1 to June 30.

If you do not like the way this works, complain to Trolltech, the makers of Qt.
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thanks

Excellent. Thanks ygor. I shall do that next month.
Great work.

Gav

Wow!

Wow, Ygor. I am impressed and thankful for your work on this.

A couple of notes, if you don't mind:

  • I've compiled both the 2ppm and 2ppd versions on Ubuntu and Gentoo Linux without a hitch. If anyone expresses interest, I'll put together packages for those systems, and send them to ygor along with screen shots. (You may have to use my contact form, I have a habit of not checking comments enough.)
  • I know C++ (though I haven't used it in far too long) -- how involved is adding/changing formats? I have some tweaks I'd like to try out.
  • What are the chances of getting you to add a color widget to this thing? I know that many people here are printing black and white anyway, but as I have a commercial printer at my disposal, I'd prefer colored planner pages (i.e. DayTimer green pages, but maybe a nicer color) so my black ink stands out.
  • Someone made a feature request re: adding in events and holidays. I'd like to stack another request onto that one: the ability to import events from an iCal feed or file. iCal is widely used in a number of calendaring apps and web sites -- I would LOVE to be able to sync my paper with digital that way.
  • Do you have, or would you like me to toss up an issue tracker for this? It would make your life easier, because others could triage bugs, feature requests, etc. for you. If you make your CVS repo public (at least for downloading), people could submit patches as well.
  • Is there any other way I can lend a hand? My spare time is unfortunately limited right now, but I'll do what I can. Also, if you have a tips/donations page or wishlist, I'd like to know!

Thank you, Ygor.

--Susan

Cool!

I'm on Ubuntu and would love packages.

Testing

Would you be willing to test them for me before I send them for ygor to post?

Susan

HedgeMage, check your e-mail

I PM'ed you. If you want to tinker in the source code, I welcome the help.
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Thanks for the heads-up, it

Thanks for the heads-up, it had fallen into my spam collector. I just replied. If we can get CVS access and an issue tracker going, then the community as a whole can join in.

Susan

Any tips on how I can make

Any tips on how I can make this print 2up? :)

2-up -- 2 steps necessary

The short answer is that the Dynamics (currently) only do 1-up
The long answer, along with a detailed how-to-do-it, is here: How to utilize Dynamic Templates and Multivalent: Example 1 - January 2008 classic booklet (2-up, duplex)
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Thanks for the tip. :)

Thanks for the tip. :)