Hi,

Is there a way for a PageMaker document that has been created by using the 
Build Booklet plug-in to convert back to the original style of single 
pages????? Even if you can just get me started where to look...

Thank you for any ideas, it can save me a lot of time!

God be with you always!
Heinz 

Violetfire wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way for a PageMaker document that has been created by using the 
> Build Booklet plug-in to convert back to the original style of single 
> pages????? Even if you can just get me started where to look...
> 
> Thank you for any ideas, it can save me a lot of time!
> 
> God be with you always!
> Heinz 
> 
> 


"Convert" is too strong a word here, but it's not too difficult to do 
manually. Open a new publication with the correct page size and page 
count (half the page size and twice the page count of the booklet). Set 
the margins. (If you do not have anything else to go on, use the margins 
on the outermost pages of the booklet, in case a creep was applied to 
the inner pages.) Select and copy the page contents from the booklet and 
paste into the new document, snapping to the margins. When you've got 
everything pasted in place, relink the text blocks and you're good to 
go. It's not trivial, in that it takes some time and you have to keep 
your wits about you, but it's not rocket science, either.

HTH,

Dick
http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/

Violetfire wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Is there a way for a PageMaker document that has been created by using the 
> Build Booklet plug-in to convert back to the original style of single 
> pages????? Even if you can just get me started where to look...
> 
> Thank you for any ideas, it can save me a lot of time!
> 
> God be with you always!
> Heinz 
> 
> 

Short answer no. Long answer...copy/paste to a new document.

Advice for the future. NEVER delete the reader spread document.

Bob

You give me hope,

I feel I should know this, but if you could also give me a hint what tool to 
use or where to click to relink the text blocks, you would save our day 
here!

Thank You

"Dick Margulis" <margulisd@comcast.net> wrote in message 
news:1302c1949mqq399@news.supernews.com...
> Violetfire wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there a way for a PageMaker document that has been created by using 
>> the Build Booklet plug-in to convert back to the original style of single 
>> pages????? Even if you can just get me started where to look...
>>
>> Thank you for any ideas, it can save me a lot of time!
>>
>> God be with you always!
>> Heinz
>
>
> "Convert" is too strong a word here, but it's not too difficult to do 
> manually. Open a new publication with the correct page size and page count 
> (half the page size and twice the page count of the booklet). Set the 
> margins. (If you do not have anything else to go on, use the margins on 
> the outermost pages of the booklet, in case a creep was applied to the 
> inner pages.) Select and copy the page contents from the booklet and paste 
> into the new document, snapping to the margins. When you've got everything 
> pasted in place, relink the text blocks and you're good to go. It's not 
> trivial, in that it takes some time and you have to keep your wits about 
> you, but it's not rocket science, either.
>
> HTH,
>
> Dick
> http://ampersandvirgule.blogspot.com/ 

Violetfire wrote:
> You give me hope,
> 
> I feel I should know this, but if you could also give me a hint what tool to 
> use or where to click to relink the text blocks, you would save our day 
> here!
> 

I no longer have PM installed and don't have time to go digging through 
the printed manual. My recollection is that it involves some fancy 
clicking of windowshade handles (with one or more of the function keys 
like Ctrl or Shift or Alt held down). You could either look it up in the 
help system yourself or hope that someone else might answer 
authoritatively here.

Dick Margulis wrote:

> Violetfire wrote:
> 
>> You give me hope,
>>
>> I feel I should know this, but if you could also give me a hint what 
>> tool to use or where to click to relink the text blocks, you would 
>> save our day here!
>>
> 
> I no longer have PM installed

Another one bites the dust! <G>

Bob

Just for the records:

Instead of copy/paste which doesn't work because PageMaker unrecoverably 
looses the links between text frames, I added empty pages to my booklet and 
MOVED half of each page to an empty page. After some formatting I'm back to 
my non-booklet file.

Thank You