Can't print a booklet

[Stuart]

I have just finished formatting 1 Corinthians as a booklet in the
Kaansa language using SILAS and I go to print a booklet and nothing
happens! I loaded the booklet printing macro, but when I click on the
button "Print Booklet" a little empty square drops down and nothing
happens.

How can I get this wonderfully formatted booklet to print now?

Thanks for your help.

Stuart Showalter
Kaansa translation project
Burkina Faso

[JimH]

On Jun 11, 10:29 pm, Stuart <stu...@showalterfamily.net> wrote:
> I have just finished formatting 1 Corinthians as a booklet in the
> Kaansa language using SILAS and I go to print a booklet and nothing
> happens! I loaded the booklet printing macro, but when I click on the
> button "Print Booklet" a little empty square drops down and nothing
> happens.
>
> How can I get this wonderfully formatted booklet to print now?
>

Hello Stuart,

It would seem that the booklet macro did not install properly.

You could try doing that again:
START button -->
All Programs (or equivalent) -->
Silas -->
Booklet_macros -->
Install word booklet macros

When that file opens, click the button to install the macros.
Do you see any error messages?

Then practice with the shorter sample booklet file that comes with
those
macros, to get your printer set up correctly.

Then practice with the longer sample booklet.

When that is working properly, try with your 1CO booklet.

If that fails, you could send me some screen shots directly.
(To make a screen shot, hit the Print Screen key, then open Windows
Paint
and do Ctrl-V to paste from the clipboard. Save as a PNG and email me
the
picture.)

If you can't get the booklet macro to work, your printer driver might
be new
enough to have its own booklet routine built in. What make and model
of
printer?
Does it do duplexing (ie. double-sided printing)?

Looking forward to your progress report,
Jim

[Stuart]

Thanks for the tips. I followed them without any more success. I
reinstalled the booklet macros and tried to print the small test
booklet, with exactly the same problem. No change. I'll email you
directly a screen shot of the button reaction when I click on it.

I'm using a Canon iP4000 printer that does do duplexing. But it's not
a recent printer - had it since 2005.

I did get the macro to work eventually by going to Tools/Macro/Macros/
WinWordBookletPrint/Run, so something is working right. I just won't
launch it from the button.

Stuart

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>
> - Show quoted text -

[JimH]

Dear Stuart,

The "button" you referred to is actually a toolbar, and it should
contain two buttons,
one for the macro to print a document with the pages paired and
the other to load all open documents into one document.

From the screen shot you sent me, it appears that the toolbar is
there, but it doesn't have any buttons on it.

Congratulations on finding the macro by going to
Tools/Macro/Macros/WinWordBookletPrint
and operating the "Run" button.

I don't know why you ended up with an empty toolbar -- the macro that
installs the booklet macros just copies the toolbar from the file
"WordBookletMacros2.56.doc" to your Normal template, along with the
modules that do the work.
You have found that it copied the macro modules OK, so why was the
toolbar empty?

If you want to follow up why this happened, you could open the
installation file for the booklet macros and check the toolbar in it,
to see if it has two buttons in it. If not, there's the answer.

If you want to put buttons in the toolbar, you could use the standard
Word procedure for adding buttons to a toolbar, using
Tools/Customize

Another thing you could try is to use the Uninstall button in the
installation file to uninstall the booklet macros, then try the
installation again.

If that doesn't get buttons in the booklets toolbar for you, you could
close Word, then rename your Normal template. When you do that, the
next time you run Word it will make a new standard Normal template,
without any of your customizations in it. You would then need to
install Silas and the booklet macros again. If all is then OK, you
could reinstall any other Add-Ins that you have installed before.

For others on this list, Kim has referred Stuart (off list) to a small
free program, PDFbooklet, that will do the page pairing for printing a
PDF file as a booklet. This would require, of course, that you use a
PDF creator to turn the Word booklet that Silas formatted into a PDF
file. Some free PDF creators are available on the web.

Let us know if you find a better solution than the Tools/Macros/Macros
approach.

Jim

On Jun 12, 5:23 am, Stuart <stu...@showalterfamily.net> wrote:
> Thanks for the tips. I followed them without any more success. I
> reinstalled the booklet macros and tried to print the small test
> booklet, with exactly the same problem. No change.

-- snip

[Stuart]

Jim,

The Word Booklet Macros 2.56.doc file has two Print Booklet toolbars,
one with the appropriate drop-down buttons, one like the one that
installed in my 1st Cor document. I deleted the faulty one from both
docs, then reinstalled the booklet macros, and got the same thing
again: a single faulty toolbar in the 1st Cor doc and two toolbars in
the macro install doc. I guess I'll have to uninstall SILAS and start
over again.

Stuart

> > WinWordBookletPrint/Run, so something is working right.- Hide quoted text -

[JimH]

On Jun 12, 11:22 pm, Stuart <stu...@showalterfamily.net> wrote:
>
> The Word Booklet Macros 2.56.doc file has two Print Booklet toolbars,
> one with the appropriate drop-down buttons, one like the one that
> installed in my 1st Cor document.
>

Actually, Stuart, when you open the installation file, you see one
toolbar from the file itself, and one from the Normal template, which
is always opened when a file is open..

> I deleted the faulty one from both
> docs, then reinstalled the booklet macros, and got the same thing
> again: a single faulty toolbar in the 1st Cor doc and two toolbars in
> the macro install doc.
>

Would you pls open the 1co file and do Tools->Templates and Add-Ins
and hit the PrintScreen key and email me the screen shot off list.

Then email me your current Normal template. To do that, do Tools-
>Templates and Add-Ins again and operate the Attach button. In the
dialog that opens, right-click the file Normal.dot and select Copy.
Hit the Escape key twice to close all dialogs. Then open My Documents
or some other folder, and over some white space there, right-click and
Paste. Right-click Normal.dot and select Send To, then Mail recipient
and email the file to me off list.

Would you then pls close Word completely, then open Word again.
Whatever file is open then, do File->Close then
File->New and make a "blank document".
This will copy the Normal template to the new document, and the only
template attached to it will be Normal.dot.
Do Tools->Customize, open the tab called Toolbars, select Booklet
Macros and operate the Delete button. Close the dialog, then save the
file with a name like Junk, and when Word asks if you want to save
changes to the Normal template, say Yes. Then reinstall the booklet
macros and see what happens.

> I guess I'll have to uninstall SILAS and start
> over again.
>

You could try that if the steps above have not solved the problem. Let
us know how you get on.

Jim