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On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 1:38 PM, John Bartol <johnbartol -at- jaggedpeak -dot- ca>
wrote:
> Google is not your friend when you don't know the term for what you want to
> do :-)
>
>
>
> I have to produce a booklet that will contain English and Spanish copy,
> where the English runs from the front to the center, and the Spanish runs
> from the back to the center. The Spanish content is 'upside-down' with
> respect to the English. (That is, when reading the doc in either direction,
> the binding will be on the left side.)
>
>
>
> Questions:
>
> - no idea how to phrase that stuff up there properly :-). If there are
> specific terms that I should know, please help! :-)
>
> - more importantly... is this something that I would do inside my InDesign
> document, or would this be something the printing company would/should
> handle? (that is, does my doc need to show the reverse/upside-down content,
> or do I provide a 'normal' doc and tell them to flip/reverse the Spanish
> content?
>
> - if it's something I need to do, *how* do I set that up in InDesign?
>
> - if it's something the printing company would do, how would I describe the
> requirement?
>
>
>
> Sorry if I'm missing something obvious... all the docs I've done with
> localization have either been standalone or one after the other in the doc
> (e.g. Eng followed by Spa followed by Ita, etc.)
>
>
>
> Thanks for any insights you can share.
>
>
>
> John
>
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