[CREATE] Laidout signature folder on the web

[Tom Lechner]

 > i would be interested in reading about some more details...

Hmm, there's a half a meg of details!

I gave a workshop a few days ago at the Portland Zine Symposium about 
how to fold big sheets of paper down into smaller booklets and zines 
(zines==small booklets, independently made, usually photocopied and 
saddle stitched). The workshop was basically doing manually what the 
software does: folding any number of papers with any number of folds, 
horizontal and vertical, into book signatures, and not get lost on how 
the pages are imposed on the paper.

I almost had the web version done before the workshop, but not quite! 
Most zinesters are not all that computer oriented, so having a web 
signature folder is much more useful than having to compile Laidout on 
Linux, though the non-computer method is kind of fun too.

Now I need to make it preview page images, or reimpose pdfs or 
something. Maybe not so easy with html and processing.js, though I'm 
just a beginner with it!

-Tom


On 08/15/2013 01:05 AM, ale rimoldi wrote:
> hi tom
>
>> In case anyone's interested, I just released a web based port (via
>> html5+processing.js) of Laidout's signature folder. I don't have a
>> wide range of devices and platforms to test on, but it should (tm)
>> work on most browsers on any platform that can do html5.
>>
>> You can play around with it here:
>> http://www.laidout.org/folder
>
> wonderful!
>
> i would be interested in reading about some more details...
>
> ciao
> a.l.e