PagePacker – a free DIY planner
I came across a free Mac OSX utility program called PagePacker. The program gives you the tools to create a little 8-page organizer from one sheet of paper.
After launching the program, you’ll see a template page with eight sections. The program comes with a variety of DIY Planner pages, such as daily, weekly, and monthly to-do lists, calendar pages, and so on. You then select a form and drag it onto the template. You can also bring in your own PDFs and images. Once the eight sections of the template are filled, it’s time to print. After it’s printed, you fold, fold, snip, fold and – presto – you have a booklet.
In addition to the to-do list reminder booklets, with some careful folding and a bit of glue stick, you can make a very cool little booklet with quilt images. Or with some Misty Fuse or Wonder Under, you can make a small fabric booklet. Once you understand the orientation and layout for each page, you can create as large a book as the paper your printer can handle. How? Print the book to a PDF. Then import the PDF into a program such as InDesign or Photoshop and enlarge it as much as you need to.
If you don’t have a Mac, there is an online tool – PocketMod – that’s similar. To run the application within your browser, you’ll need a Flash player. Also, there’s a video that gives you a quick demo of the folding and snipping process.
February 25th, 2009 at 8:52 pm
I love these little folded booklets. I have been making them for quite a few years for my small quilt group, printing names addresses, and schedule of meetings for the year. I got the template from the Adobe site back when they had a lot of goodies on the site. They fit into your purse or organizer very neatly. I blogged about them a couple years ago. Here: http://andsewitgoes.blogspot.com/2006/01/little-booklet.html
February 25th, 2009 at 9:28 pm
Terry, I checked out your site with the booklet. VERY cool!