brochure templates for letter and A4 sizes

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#21

I have made some folding guides before. Use some dotted line that is really light gray and not long. I made sure there was one on top and on the bottom of the page so the folder could use them to line up the edge.

For LO, I would use
Separator line
the dotted line
0.25pt width
35%
Centered
Gray 10%

or something similar if I was printing in b&w or a color that matches the color of the paper.

#22

Hi :slight_smile:
Wow!!  Thanks for that!  Seems that Captain Robert Pearson and First Officer Maurice Quintal and the rest of the crew and all were totally heroic in managing a landing with less than minimal gauges and less than basic functionality with only minimal bumps and scratches to show for it.  [tips hat]
Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#23

Hi :slight_smile:
The problem is not a technical one but a people one.  If you are the one doing the folding then the guides help but if it's someone else then there is a good chance they really don't give a stuff how bad it looks.  In which case the lines wont help and may even add to the shoddy appearance of the end-result.

I got trapped into doing all the folding because there are only 2 of us capable of folding adequately and both of us find that doing so is actually faster.  When i realised i'd got myself trapped i kept quiet about who the other good person was.

Regards from
Tom :slight_smile:

#24

Virgil Arrington wrote:

I'm old enough to remember the push back in the '70s to move to the
metric system in America. At the time, it made a lot of sense to me
simply because everything metric is in multiples of 10. But, I think
the biggest bugaboo for Americans was that we just couldn't get the
handle of visualizing and conceiving the actual size of things in
metric units. I can visualize and estimate a foot, a yard, even a
mile. I have a harder time estimating a meter or kilometer.

Every country that switched went through that. Are Americans dumber than everyone else?

In terms of absolute size, there is nothing about an inch that is any
more or less arbitrary than a centimeter. Both are identifiable and
equally arbitrary spans of space. A yard is no more or less arbitrary
than a meter. It's just that a meter is broken down into subparts
measured in multiples of ten, whereas the yard is broken down into
units of three feet and 36 inches. Certainly, the metric system makes
more sense internally, but for those of us accustomed to inches, feet,
and yards, we see no problem with it.

The metric system was based on actual physical units. For example, the metre was originally 1/10,000,000 the distance from the equator to the poles. The celcius temperature scale was based on the freezing and boiling points of water etc. Now compare that to how inches, yards, miles (which one?) etc. were determined. Why is there a difference between U.S. & Imperial gallons? There's even a difference in the size of the fluid ounce, so that the U.S. ounce is bigger than the Imperial. Then we get to a U.S. gallon is 4 quarts, a quart is 32 ounces (but bigger ounces than Imperical) and an Imperial gallon is 4 quarts, but that quart is 40 (smaller) ounces. Makes for a lot of fun, doesn't it.

And, I think that is the reason things won't change here. Until we
perceive our system as broken, we won't look for ways to fix it,
especially if it costs money to do so. It works for us just fine,
thank you, even if it is goofy.

The problem is that some people, such as Reagan, refuse to acknowledge the problem. On the other hand, Carter, a professional engineer, could certainly appreciate the benefits of the metric system. When you work in science or engineering, the metric system leaves the old units in the dust. There is simply no comparison.

#25

As if any President in the last 120 years has been any good.

But this isn't a political list, so lets leave politics out of it, eh?

#26

Why do you transmit such FUD without doing some research? Carter's 1975
initiative, purely voluntary act, was a failure. Reagan signed the Omnibus
Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988, which promised a more effective
program for metrification. However, we Americans are a stubborn bunch, and
we refuse to change to something in day-to-day use that works for us.