WARPSPAWN GAMES 4-PAGE PRINTING FORMAT by Tom Higgins




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Using just One sheet of 8.5x11 (or the euro 
equiv)  that when folded just right the text and all would make 
a very cool very compact zinelete.


Here is the simple version. 
Take a piece of 8.5X11 or its equiv.

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Take the bottom edge and fold it up to the top (thus folding it 
in  half)



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   (fold up to top)

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Then Take the left edge and fold it across to the right (thus 
floding  it in half again)

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|f         |          g|
|t         |          h|
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(fold across to right)


What you should have should resemble a little 4 page booklete.

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If you mark the Front as cover, the Back as Back , and the inner 
two  section as Inner1 and Inner 2 then unfold the paper this is 
what you  will get


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|   Back    |  Cover   |
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|  Inside 2 | Inside 1 |
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(The once caveat, in order to get everything facing the right 
way you  need to flip the text upside down in the Inside1 and 
Inside 2  sections. MS Word can do this easy as can some other 
non MS  Wordmanglers.)

The back of the page would be the game map and counter, the game 
sheet, etc.

Now what is this good for? Lots.

One application could be in getting some of the games out and 
spread  around as one page samzdat.  For instance.

Malta Convoy. The rules would fit in the front side of the page 
and the  gamesheet would cover the back side. You could read the 
rules, then unfold and play. 

You could easily print the gmes out and pass them around, leave 
them on the counters of game shops, in book or magazine stores 
etc etc etc.

Here is a PDF with a ready to print, ready to fold game.
I used Malta Convoy cause I had the grfx ready.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/warpspawn/files/MALTA%20CONVOYZinelete.pdf

Well I thought MSword did it, problem is it just does both side 
and top not upside down

I used the tables featuer in word to get the page borken up into 
the four qudrants. Then I formated the text as I wanted it save 
for the upside down part of the bottom two quads.

I then took a screen snapshot of the word doc I was using and 
then pasted the image into an art program (pick your fave). 

I then cropped out the parts I did not need and wound up with 
just the two sections that needed flipping. Then I flipped them 
and pasted them back into word as images.

The thing is you loose the ability to play with them as text at 
that point, so you better have done all the editing you need to do 
before. Its not that hard to redo it, just extra steps.

Then i converted the thing to PDF and bingo, done.

If I can get word to odo upside down text i can do away with the 
grfx part:)-







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