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Subject: print 4 x 6 cards

how can I print 4 x 6 cards with the ingredients  on one side and the instructions on the other side?

rchrdprss

rchrdprss : 47w 2d ago

You can put a page break after the ingredients.
If your printer does duplex printing, then you'll get the front-and-back printing automatically.
Otherwise, first print all odd pages, then turn the cards over and do all the even pages.  You need to  make sure to put everything in the correct way so the directions for recipe 1 wind up on the same card as the ingredients for recipe 1.

ReneeM

ReneeM : 46w 5d ago

Wait are you talking about bigoven or BOPtool?  I may have just answered the same question for a 3x5 card (qv).
 
Good Luck!
Renee

ReneeM

ReneeM : 44w 6d ago

I am talking about big oven.
Is there a facility in big oven  for inputing a page break in big oven, or do I need to set it up in a text editor?

RP

[edited January-12-2009]

rchrdprss

rchrdprss : 44w 5d ago

BigOven will put the page break wherever it wants the page break to go.
If you want to have ingredients on front, directions on back, you can hit return just enough times at the beginning of the instructions.
 
This will be pretty easy.  But you will have the word "Directions" on the front of the card, under the Ingredients.  Anyway, it's a RECIPE.  We all know it's a recipe.  Who needs to have the words INGREDIENTS and DIRECTIONS on a recipe card?
 
I know a right-in-bigoven solution to that.  Interested?  I have to think this through just a tad to make sure I explain it right.
 
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The more I think about this, the more I think I'd prefer to do it in BOPtool instead of BigOven.  Because customizing 4x6 printing from within bigoven requires
 
First, some one-time setup:
  1. Creating a new custom recipe theme for printing to index cards
  2. Replacing one of the original recipe themes with that theme
  3. Creating a custom paper size (4x6) from the printer dialog.
  4. Giving up two-column printing on the card, since that's only available in the non-modifiable 3x5 and 4x6 print format.

Then, each time you print 4x6 cards, from bigoven Print Preview ("normal"), setup

  1. Select Landscape printing
  2. Choose "User-Defined" paper
  3. Blank out the Headers and Footers
  4. Set the margins narrower than you would for 8 1/2 x 11" printing
  5. Press the "printer" button, and tell your printer to use 4x6 paper from the manual feed tray.
  6. And then set all that stuff back again afterwards, because bigoven just shares IE's print setup options, and you don't want to tell your browser to print everything on a 4x6 card with narrow margins and no page #, date, or URL information, do you?
Doing it with BOPtool requires
  1. Having WORD
  2. Downloading BOPtool and saving it to wherever your PC keeps templates

Then, each time you print 4x6 cards, from WORD using the BOPtool template

  1. Copying some recipes into WORD and pushing BOPtool's "format" button
  2. Pushing the BOPtool "4x6" button.
  3. Choosing between 1-column or 2-column ingredients (using a button, of course)
You can add page breaks exactly where you want them with the BOPtool "PageBreak" button not an option from bigoven.  Once you get every card the way you l ike it, you can even save an entire set of recipes as a WORD document so you can print copies for your entire family, since they'll all need some good recipes for the truffle oil you bought them for Christmas.
 
So I recommend the BOPtool solution, which is not surprising, since I wrote BOPtool to do things my way.  But I'd be happy to help you struggle through the other way, if you prefer that.

[edited January-13-2009]

[edited January-13-2009]

[edited January-13-2009]

ReneeM

ReneeM : 44w 5d ago

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