Great program, exactly what I was looking for.

[DJA]

First of all thanks for writing this program that does something no
other program I have seen can do. Thanks more for making this freely
available to download. I am grateful. I would like to send you my
extreme couponing cheat sheet that I've written to say thanks.

I am using and endorsing your program to take small PDF images
(coupons) that I have clipped out of larger PDF documents with Preview
and put these individual files together on the same canvas to print
out so I can get 4 of the same coupon on the same sheet of 8.5x11
paper. I start with a blank 8.5x11 PDF and place the smaller PDF
documents onto that. This has worked out very well. There are only
four recommendations I can make.

1. It would be really great to start off with a blank PDF document
when I open the program so I didn't have to open my own.
Alternatively, let me choose a document to use as a starting point
whenever the program opens.

2. Place Image in the File menu has no shortcut key. This is how I'm
getting the smaller images onto the larger canvas. Things would go
quicker if this had a hotkey or if I could drag other PDFs into the
open file.

3. There doesn't appear to be any copy & paste option for what I am
doing. This is not a big deal.

4. Guidelines, grids, or object snaps would make this program perfect.

Thanks again.

[Andrew de los Reyes]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 2:20 AM, DJA <ame...@gmail.com> wrote:

First of all thanks for writing this program that does something no
other program I have seen can do.  Thanks more for making this freely
available to download.   I am grateful.  I would like to send you my
extreme couponing cheat sheet that I've written to say thanks.

I'm curious about this :)

 

I am using and endorsing your program to take small PDF images
(coupons) that I have clipped out of larger PDF documents with Preview
and put these individual files together on the same canvas to print
out so I can get 4 of the same coupon on the same sheet of 8.5x11
paper.  I start with a blank 8.5x11 PDF and place the smaller PDF
documents onto that.  This has worked out very well.  There are only
four recommendations I can make.

1. It would be really great to start off with a blank PDF document
when I open the program so I didn't have to open my own.
Alternatively, let me choose a document to use as a starting point
whenever the program opens.

Interesting idea. Please file an issue at http://code.google.com/p/formulatepro/issues/entry for this.

 

2. Place Image in the File menu has no shortcut key.  This is how I'm
getting the smaller images onto the larger canvas.  Things would go
quicker if this had a hotkey or if I could drag other PDFs into the
open file.

This is another good idea. In the time being, you can create your own keyboard shortcut like so (these instruction for 10.6 Snow Leopard, hopefully it's similar for other versions of OS X):

Apple Menu->System Preferences->Keyboard->Keyboard Shortcuts

In the left box, click "Application Shortcuts." Click the "+" button, and a pop-up window should appear.

For the Application, choose FormulatePro. For the title, put "Place Image…" Then pick a hot-key combination.

 

3. There doesn't appear to be any copy & paste option for what I am
doing.  This is not a big deal.

When using the arrow tool, try holding the option key when you drag something. It should drag a copy of it. (This works in many programs besides FormulatePro.)

 

4. Guidelines, grids, or object snaps would make this program perfect.

Yeah, these are also good ideas. One potential workaround is to start with a PDF that has some grid-lines on it. Then, when you print, in the print dialog box you can choose to not print the original PDF, and only your added content will show.

As you can see, the program isn't necessarily super-fully featured, but generally there's enough there to get by. I don't put very much time into developing new features, but when I do, I go off the issues list, so it's good to file problems and feature requests there, and star items you care about that are already there.

-andrew

 

Thanks again.

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[Matt]

Andrew, thanks for your email.  I have tried the option + drag trick and it works well.

Attached is the document that I was telling you about.  To understand it you would need to be familiar with coupon printing websites.  There are sites online which let you print out coupons and they usually only let you print them once maybe twice on the same computer.  There's a client side application that the site installs on your mac that works like a browser plugin and this handles the printing and makes sure you don't print more than the allowed amount.  Extreme couponers like to have as many coupons as possible.  It's a fast-growing fad that my fiancé has recently gotten into.  She says to me one night, "Honey do you think there's a way you can make the computer print out more than one copy of the coupons?"  This is where I entered the picture.  I began investigating ways to outsmart the coupon printing sites and eventually arrived at a pretty simple trick.  The setup takes only a few minutes and once you learn the routine it's not bad for what you can get out of it, which is unlimited coupons.

I sent you a donation for your project.  It's not much but I hope it helps you somehow.

Thanks again,

Matt