Margins of Mini Guide Pages

Post by **Jerry Bargo** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 2:27 pm

I would love for the mini guides to print with large enough margins on the left and right so that I can three-hole-punch them without punching the text. I print double-sided, so the extra blank space on both margins would be helpful. Margins of 3/4" would be great (the left margin currently prints with less than 1/2" margin). Is this an easy tweak for an admin to make on a "cascading style sheet"?

Post by **tomdarch** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:03 pm

Until any changes are made in the mini-guides there should be a simple alternate solution. If you poke around in your printing options, you probably have an option to reduce the size of the printing to some percentage of the original size. Printing at 90% or so should give you the margins you need without harming the readability of the guides.

by the way, how much luck are you having with the three ring binder? I tried that with the guide to Wild Iowa (which was sold as a set of half-letter pages, pre punched for a half-sheet 3 ring binder) It was nice because the rigid sides of the binder protected the pages, but the 3-hole punching made the pages vulnerable to ripping out of the binder.

Ray - let me chime in with ideas to waste your manditory vacation time! You could set up the mini-guides to be printed out double sided, then folded and stapled down the ceneter like the Dr. Topo mini guides. On the plus side, the end result is great - compact, easy to stuff in a bag and easy to flip through. The down side is that they are a little tricky set up and fairly tricky/confusing to print out for the end user.

If you want to use your vacation to get all crazy and develop a crank habit and stay up all night re-designing the mini-guides and digging holes in your back yard, let me know - I'll be glad to help! (With the mini-guide re-design - the holes are all you)

Post by **lordjim_2001** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 4:21 pm

On the note of wasting Ray's vacation time:

You could update the Dr.Topo guides to the Red.
You could also do a Dr.Topo guide for the trad crags of the Red.

Post by **SCIN** » Fri Nov 19, 2004 6:07 pm

I've been thinking about trying to do that anyway. I'll see what I can do since I have some downtime.

Post by **Saxman** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 5:35 am

Digging holes is so 19th century. There are much better ways to dipsose of one's bodies that leave no trace.

Post by **dipsi** » Sat Nov 20, 2004 3:19 pm

Put them in water, soon all evidence is munched or washed away. Ewww.

Post by **andy_lemon** » Tue Nov 23, 2004 1:24 am

Ray, design that shit using Quark Xpress and get the Adobe Distililer... that shit works wonders.