Posted: 2/26/2010 11:41:28 AM EDT
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I've looked through my normal forum topics and can't find it. Would one of you please point me to the recent discussion regarding micro-printing of manuals?
One of the posters linked a little 'origami' trick for folding micro documents into a bound-book format. I want to include Jack London's "To Build A Fire" in a fire kit I'm making for my daughter and thought it would be a nice touch. Thanks in advance. |
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If you search for "origami booklets" you'll find several different ways to fold blank paper into page-style booklets. (http://www.5min.com/Video/How-to-Fold-an-Origami-Booklet-116054238)
I wasn't able to achieve my goal with simple origami though. I think it can be done - I just didn't have the time. I was attempting to take a printed document and fold it into a sequentially correct mini book with the text properly centered on each page. This would require pasting text into a table and then probably inverting some boxes of text. In my case, I would have needed to bind many of these mini books together with string because the document was so long. I wonder if the "scrap-booking" types might have already developed an application where you could simply paste text into a pre-formatted Word document. Everything would be indexed and you just fold away. The Origami starts to get complex, I'm sure, when you need additional pages though. The other side of the coin was what the OP was discussing in the first Topic discussion - microprinting (searches on this topic reveal a lot of info on counterfeiting technology). I believe he discussed the need for an older, specific style of printer which I don't have. I'm not sure how small he was able to get but I believe you needed magnification. Evidently the results were very clear and legible. I would still be interested if further solutions are presented. |