Printing in textpad

husseined · Post by **husseined** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 12:45 am

is it possible to help me i want to be able to specify and insert page number.

for eg i have 3 files and they all together have 5 pages so if i print i will get 1-5,1-51-5 three times instead i want to print 1 to 15. or be able to go in each file and put 1-5, 6-10, 11-15.

please help

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 1:14 am

How about copying the the three files together as one file, and then printing that?

Open File1. Do Edit, Insert File, choose File2, OK. Then repeat that for File3.
Now you can print all three files and have pages 1-15 vs. three groups of pages 1-5. You can now close without saving and you will still have the threee separate files that you started with.

husseined · Post by **husseined** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 10:07 am

the problem is when i keep the together they come on differentpages, but if thee is a way to manual insert page say start from 7 onwards then its much help becuase then i can avoide the clutter.

many thnaks
H

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 6:57 pm

My only thought would be some type of macro to insert enough blank lines to stuff in front as blank pages 66 lines per portrait page?). Then when you get to Print, select pages to print starting at first real non-blank page.

Maybe even make a Library Clip for one page of blank lines. Then just insert that clip for each blank page you want to stuff at the front to consume page numbers. Need to start numbering on page 7, then insert library clip 6 times. Do File, Print. Select print from page 7 to page n. (Do page preview first to confirm working correctly.

mo · Post by mo » Fri Apr 09, 2004 8:28 pm

If you're going to go that far, why not edit the file and insert your own page breaks and page numbers and turn off page numbering by the printer?

Post by **MudGuard** » Fri Apr 09, 2004 9:00 pm

Bob, instead of adding lots of empty lines, I'd simply do Edit - Insert - Page Break ;-)

Bob Hansen · Post by **Bob Hansen** » Sat Apr 10, 2004 1:01 am

Where did that come from? Page Break? Never saw that after all this time! Someone must have inserted that into my copy last night when I was not looking.

Well, that is what I would have done if TextPad did not have the PageBreak! What a dummy, me.

Gotta go back and review some stuff I guess I have forgotten about.
Thanks MudGuard and mo.