[Apfhex]

Say I have a document (in InDesign, Quark, whatever!) that I want to print to 8.5"x11" card paper that is divided into quarters. I want to take the contents of the document and have them shrunk down to quarter size (or perhaps I've designed the document to the correct dimensions already), and tiled on the printed page. Currently it is possible to print multiple DIFFERENT pages to a single sheet, but not the SAME page MULTIPLE times to a single sheet.

I suppose one way is to duplicate the page the required number of times, then tile them to the single printed page. Or, put in some guides and copy/paste the contents the required number of times. Is there really no better way do do this (with any software)?

[art_director]

Can you post this again in English?

[art_director]

BTW, didn't mean to sound rude but your post is rather confusing. If you can state your needs / goals simply and clearly I'm certain someone can help.

[art_director]

And, just to clarify, tiling from Quark Help...

Using Tiling to Print an Oversized Layout

When layout pages are larger than the paper or media in your printer, you will need to use the Tiling feature to output the entire page, which can be assembled as hard copy later. To tile a layout:

Choose File → Print (+P on Mac OS, Ctrl+P on Windows).

To print a large layout in tiles (sections), choose a tiling option from the Tiling pop-up menu. You can choose Manual or Automatic tiling.
When you choose Manual, you can control the way in which a page is tiled based on the ruler origin. The top-left corner of the first tile prints from the zero point. You must specify the desired ruler origin before opening the Print dialog box. To set the ruler origin, choose View → Show Rulers, click and hold in the intersection of the horizontal and vertical rulers, and move the ruler origin onto the page.

When you choose Automatic, QuarkXPress determines how many tiles are needed to print each layout page, based on the page size, the printer’s media (paper) size, whether or not Absolute Overlap is checked, and the value you enter in the Overlap field (the default overlap is three inches).

The value entered in the Overlap field is the amount QuarkXPress will use to extend the page as needed to create the tile. When Absolute Overlap is checked, QuarkXPress will use only the value in the Overlap field when extending the page to create the tile. If Absolute Overlap is unchecked, QuarkXPress will use at least the amount in the Overlap field when creating the tile, but may use a larger amount if necessary. Do not check Absolute Overlap if you want your layout centered on the final assembled tiles. QuarkXPress prints tickmarks and location information on each tile to aid you in reassembling them.

Click Print.

[budster101]

(answered) I think.

[Apfhex]

Sorry. It was really late when I posted that. This dilemma has nothing to do with tiling larger pages..

I had earlier been trying to help out a friend print some invitations at the last possible moment. He had 8.5x11" paper that was divided into quarters (so you could tear it apart and have nice invitation-sized cards). What he was trying to do was take a document (designed in Word at 8.5x11") and print that document four times on one sheet. I simply could not think of a reasonable way to go about doing this, because as I said, it's possible to print a multi-page document to one sheet (say, pages 1-4), but not 4 copies of just page 1 to one sheet. Get it?


Now instead of pages 1-4 printing on the page like that, I wanted them all to be page 1, repeated 4 times. What I ended up doing was creating an InDesign document, placing the Word file, shrinking it to quarter size, and copy/pasting it 3 more times on the page. Alternately, I suppose I could have duplicated the full size page 3 more times, and then done the "4 pages per sheet" thing, but it seems there should be a more convenient way to go about it (but I guess maybe not).

[andi*pandi]

why not just lay it out 4-up on the 8.5x11 sheet in the first place?

[art_director]

Because that would make sense? : • >

[budster101]

What was the problem again?

[art_director]

I dunno, something about Tiling Pages of Mass Destruction ? ? ?