Folding Tricks

How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:

How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

You best solve your folding question with a calculator and an accurate
scale.
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Regards,

Eric Stevens

"Front-Back-Inside" wrote in message
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How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture so
that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx


Measure the 1/3 and 2/3 points width, top and bottom, and fold along those
lines. Although it is probably a good idea to make the centre third of the
page very slightly wider than the left and right thirds so that when the
page is folded, the folded-in parts fit comfortably within the centre
section. Maybe make the left and right folds 1-2mm (1/16") smaller than the
centre one. Maybe measure a commercially produced leaflet of this type to
see what sizes they have used.

On 31/03/2019 20:15, Front-Back-Inside wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx
It depends on which software you are using. In Microsoft Publisher, you
can create three boxes of size: 3.58in x 7.77in. Then create custom
margins of:

L: 0.3in
R: 0.3in
T: 0.25in
B: 0.25in
Gutter: 0.25in

You then need to distribute the three boxes vertically and horizontally.

You then draw a straight vertical line in the middle of the two gutters
(at 0.125in) so that you have a folding guide.

This is mathematics using the standard A4 size paper of: 8.27in x
11.69in or 210 × 297 millimetres. You can use metric system (e.g: mm or
cm) as your units so that you can get it almost exact distribution of
the boxes because of very small measurement sizes.

Adobe Indesign can also do this but most people with Microsoft Office
Professional Plus will have Microsoft Publisher on their machine which
they may not even know about it because of their low intelligence.
Microsoft Office 365 Home is available as subscription for £79.99 (or US
$99.99) ad most people doing some serious computing work should have a
copy on their machine.

Microsoft Office:
http://tinyurl.com/y254zzek
*https://preview.tinyurl.com/y254zzek*

Adobe Indesign:
http://tinyurl.com/yxcyummq
*https://preview.tinyurl.com/yxcyummq*

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In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

Il giorno Mon 01 Apr 2019 12:43:46p, *=?UTF-8?B?8J+YiSBHb29kIEd1eSDwn5iJ?=*
ha inviato su alt.comp.os.windows-10 il messaggio
. Vediamo cosa ha scritto:

It depends on which software you are using. In Microsoft Publisher, you
can create three boxes of size: 3.58in x 7.77in. Then create custom
margins of:

L: 0.3in
R: 0.3in
T: 0.25in
B: 0.25in
Gutter: 0.25in

You then need to distribute the three boxes vertically and horizontally.


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an old friend, with dozens of years of DTP on his back, always said:
set margins mathematically accurate, then print the page, last change the
a.m. margins according to the printer (in)accurateness
don't care if on the screen it's not centered, you know that it will be on
paper

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On 01/04/2019 16:37, Ammammata wrote:

an old friend, with dozens of years of DTP on his back, always said:
set margins mathematically accurate, then print the page, last change the
a.m. margins according to the printer (in)accurateness
don't care if on the screen it's not centered, you know that it will be on
paper

Problem with people with all that experience is that they think they
know it all when, in fact, they are too old to embrace modern
technology!!. to them these technologies are useless.

The fact of the matter is in the 21st century it is all about pdf, epub
& other forms of non-paper documents. People are paranoid about
environment so they are using ebooks and all that these days; Therefore,
your friends advice should be taken with a pinch of salt. You must have
seen on these newsgroups that all those old farts with experience of
dos, and old windows are advising people to install all sorts of gadgets
to turn their Windows 10 system into some zombie and unusable. Now who
in their right-mind will listen to these nutters. Mind you they must
have been good at DOS and Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 but we don't use
them for any business purposes.





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On Mon, 01 Apr 2019 08:54:53 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

If you had done more mathematics you would have understood my
reference.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

If you had done more mathematics you would have understood my
reference.

it doesn't matter what your reference was.

it's very easy to do what was requested.

On Mon, 01 Apr 2019 19:20:22 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

If you had done more mathematics you would have understood my
reference.

it doesn't matter what your reference was.

it's very easy to do what was requested.

So easy that the question had to be loaded.
--

Regards,

Eric Stevens

In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

If you had done more mathematics you would have understood my
reference.

it doesn't matter what your reference was.

it's very easy to do what was requested.

So easy that the question had to be loaded.

i think you are loaded, and not the financial meaning of the term.

nospam wrote:
In article , Eric Stevens
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

If you had done more mathematics you would have understood my
reference.

it doesn't matter what your reference was.

it's very easy to do what was requested.

So easy that the question had to be loaded.

i think you are loaded, and not the financial meaning of the term.

I understood the question the same as Eric Stevens did and assumed that
"exactly 3 equal folds" meant exactly 3 equal folds.
Anyone can tri-fold but exactness requires a measuring device.

In article , Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

If you had done more mathematics you would have understood my
reference.

it doesn't matter what your reference was.

it's very easy to do what was requested.

So easy that the question had to be loaded.

i think you are loaded, and not the financial meaning of the term.

I understood the question the same as Eric Stevens did and assumed that
"exactly 3 equal folds" meant exactly 3 equal folds.
Anyone can tri-fold but exactness requires a measuring device.

worrying about fractions of a millimeter is ridiculous.

On Mon, 01 Apr 2019 23:57:47 -0400, nospam
wrote:

In article , Paul in Houston TX
wrote:

On Sun, 31 Mar 2019 19:15:00 -0000 (UTC), Front-Back-Inside
wrote:
How do you fold a landscape paper such as the one shown in the picture
so that it has exactly 3 equal folds:

Front,
Back
Inside

https://postimg.cc/Yv0xP1Hx

It's equivalent to trisecting an angle. It can't be done.

nonsense. of course it can be done. left side folds in, then right side
folds over it. 'front' is visible on the front and 'back' is visible on
the back.

it's a standard brochure layout.

If you had done more mathematics you would have understood my
reference.

it doesn't matter what your reference was.

it's very easy to do what was requested.

So easy that the question had to be loaded.

i think you are loaded, and not the financial meaning of the term.

I understood the question the same as Eric Stevens did and assumed that
"exactly 3 equal folds" meant exactly 3 equal folds.
Anyone can tri-fold but exactness requires a measuring device.

worrying about fractions of a millimeter is ridiculous.

Tons of junk mail is so folded. They have
hundreds of little old ladies folding A4 sheets
and stuffing envelopes therewith.
Even a blind person can do it.

"Peter Jason" wrote in message
...
I understood the question the same as Eric Stevens did and assumed that
"exactly 3 equal folds" meant exactly 3 equal folds.
Anyone can tri-fold but exactness requires a measuring device.

worrying about fractions of a millimeter is ridiculous.

Tons of junk mail is so folded. They have
hundreds of little old ladies folding A4 sheets
and stuffing envelopes therewith.
Even a blind person can do it.

I take it you are joking. Have you never seen a paper-folding machine: it's
quite mesmerising to watch.

Folding a sheet (eg A4) in *half* is easy: you align the edges and by
definition you will be folding it exactly along the half-way line so each
half is A5. Then you can fold that in half again and end up with quarters
where each part is A6... and so on. (*)

But folding it exactly in thirds is more difficult by eye. I'm not sure how
you would do it. But it's easy if you measure it.

I'm one of those "terrible" people who never do *anything* by estimating if
I can do it by accurate measurement. My grandpa would turn in his grave: he
could estimate the half-way or one-third-way point of something by eye,
using a skill that I cannot even begin to comprehend: evidently something
that modern man has lost. My wife's the same. The other day she cut a square
cake into square (**) quarters by eye and was accurate to about 1 mm over a
distance of about 200 mm. She can also also remember the size or weight of
two very similar objects if she holds one and then the other (ie not both at
the same time to compare) and can reliably say which is the larger/heavier.
Definitely a skill that you either have or don't have.


(*) That's one of the great advantages that A4 (etc) has over US letter:
because the aspect ratio of A4 is exactly 1 : sqrt(2) - for example 210x297
mm - if you fold the paper exactly in half, you end up with pages which are
smaller but still have exactly the same aspect ratio... and so on for
successive halvings.

(**) I specified square because making diagonal corner-to-corner cuts,
producing triangles, is trivially easy.