Sermon Editor: PRINTING Handouts and Questions

TCBlack
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

I'm going to make some assumptions that may be off.  Correct me gently please.

  • I assume that most people would like to put handouts and question sheets in with their bulletins.
  • I assume that most people use the only bulletin format I have ever seen: essentially a single 8.5x11 sheet of paper folded in half.

If my two premises are correct, than can we please have a means of automatically formatting the handouts and questions into an appropriate format for that? e.g. side by side and back to back for folding or cutting into two in such a way that they fit as an insert in what I assume is the "normal" bulletin sheet?

Interestingly enough the original handouts feature did permit at least the folded sheet format.

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  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 55,425

    TCBlack said:

    I assume that most people use the only bulletin format I have ever seen: essentially a single 8.5x11 sheet of paper folded in half.

    Curious that is a size I see only on major feast days as service programs. To me a standard church bulletin is a 17x22 sheet of paper folded in half with 8.5x11 inserts. Clearly two multiple sizes are needed.

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  • Fred Chapman
    Fred Chapman Member Posts: 5,899 ✭✭✭

    TCBlack said:

    Interestingly enough the original handouts feature did permit at least the folded sheet format.

    Uh oh [:)]

    I agree with you Thomas. That would seem a logical option

  • Mike Binks
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    MJ. Smith said:

    Curious that is a size I see only on major feast days as service programs. To me a standard church bulletin is a 17x22 sheet of paper folded in half with 8.5x11 inserts. Clearly two sizes are needed.

    Curious those are sizes I only see in museums as exhibits of old world quaintness. To me standard bulletin is 210mmx297mm (A4) folded in half to make an A5 sized booklet.

    Please do not make anything other than printing to A4 sheets the default. Printing software is a better vehicle for creating booklets from this output than Logos is ever likely to be.

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  • TCBlack
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    To me standard bulletin is...

    MJ. Smith said:

    Clearly two Multiple sizes are needed.

    Fixed that for you.

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  • Mike Binks
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  • GregW
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    TCBlack said:

    I assume that most people use the only bulletin format I have ever seen: essentially a single 8.5x11 sheet of paper folded in half

    8.5x11 is used in North America, but the whole of Europe uses "A" sizes (A1, A2, A3, A4, A5 etc) where each increment is half the size of the previous number. To those of us outside North America, Letter size is as much use as a chocolate teapot. You couldn't even buy Letter size paper at Staples here the last time I checked so, as Mike says, A4 or A5 is more useful. 

    In my own church we don't print paper bulletins any more, so distributing these things electronically is far more important to us. Even the old ladies get their bulletins by email nowadays. 


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  • TCBlack
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    GregW said:

    Even the old ladies get their bulletins by email nowadays

    Your old ladies are more tech savy than my old ladies.

    #whatsacomputer

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  • MJ. Smith
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    TCBlack said:

    To me standard bulletin is...

    MJ. Smith said:

    Clearly two Multiple sizes are needed.

    Fixed that for you.

    Thank you.

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  • Keith Brich
    Keith Brich Member Posts: 35 ✭✭

    I completely agree---it needs to be more configurable.    WHATEVER size one wants, it should not be locked on to a full size paper size.    

    What I did was take a standard 8.5 x 11, set to landscape format, and 2 columns.   I then copied and pasted into the Word doc and used a paper cutter to cut the inserts.    It would have been nice if it was able to just print it that way rather than jump through the copy/paste hoops.   

  • Todd Phillips
    Todd Phillips Member Posts: 6,736 ✭✭✭

    Heh.  Our church uses legal size paper (8.5 x 14) folded in thirds.  So our inserts are...ummm...(doing math) 8.5 x 4.67.

    So I think both 1/2 and 1/3 sizes are needed.  (AKA 2-Up, 3-Up printing)

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