A book for you: "A Kundalini Primer." Happy Holidays!

Mystress · Dec 09, 2007, 02:22:49 AM

Vyana, I already wrote a book, and you have a copy. The manual you got for the FST weekend intensive.
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My agreement with the person who converted it to PDF for me was it is a freebie, a viral promotional book that anyone can download and print, give copies to friends. Turn it loose into the world.

I just haven't gotten around to making a download page for it on K-teacher, partly because I have no clue about how to successfully print one up as a magazine and so cannot provide instructions. I'm not even sure what size paper it uses, European or Western.

I think you need to print the cover side, and turn them over to print the rest on the other side? If you have a double sided printer then maybe it is simpler. I tend to end up with one side of the pages upside down.

Get it right and you have a little 40 page magazine you can put in your pocket, with a bit of white space for notes. 10 sheets of paper, double sided landscape and folded in 1/2. I like to punch holes down the spine and bind them with thin ribbon woven through to tie the pages together into a magazine. Staples work too. So does bringing the pdf file to a print shop and letting the pros figure it out.

It is a giveaway. Gift that keeps giving...
Print some up, as stocking stuffers for receptive friends, or just to give to people who might benefit from learning to get grounded, as a random act of kindness. Don't spam or prosetylize... gaining FST some bad PR is not the point.

Download the PDF here. cover side:
http://fire-serpent.com/tearoom/mystress/MAS_kundalini_primer.pdf

other side:
http://fire-serpent.com/tearoom/mystress/MAS_kundalini_primer2.pdf

If somebody can figure out how to print the thing and write up instructions as a readme and zip them together with the pdfs, then I'll share the zip.

Holly: want to make this thing prettier? Graphic arts is a large field and I am not sure of your specialty. If you are interested I'll send you the word doc. The original it was based on, was made way back, the black & white clipart was all I had, and it was written for a pagan workshop so it fit. I wanted art that would read well even after 10 generations on a cheap B&W photocopier. It's been edited and modified many times since, to tweak it for various workshops.

Anybody else: I originally wrote it to be concise and save trees. If you were to add a few more pages/essays or snippets from my work to fill it out for a novice or for reference, what would they be?

Don't post quotes from FST lessons here: don't spoil the process for the newbies. PM me or gather from my other sites. K-teacher has essays, the K-list archives have thousands of posts I've written about just about every K-related topic under the sun, from merkabas to dandruff.

One of my downfalls as a teacher that I often assume people already know stuff... it leaves holes in my writing if they actually don't know! I don't know what they don't know so I need people who know what they don't know to tell me what to teach them.

All possible future improvements aside, enjoy the book! Blessings...

Helen · Dec 09, 2007, 04:02:26 AM

Awwww cool, thanks a lot! happy holidays to you too! <3

but why it's missing half of the pages?

Mystress · Dec 09, 2007, 12:51:32 PM

I modified the previous post to give links to both sides... thanks for the heads up!

Helen · Dec 09, 2007, 01:15:58 PM

Almost there... now just change the url to actually point to kundalini_primer2 in the 2nd link

looks very neat! kinda difficult to read online with all the weird page order, but gotta try to print it tomorrow at work

thanks again

juergen · Dec 16, 2007, 05:37:15 PM

Thank You Mystress!

Nice little book, just printed 50M copies, now i look like my own shadow, printer's ink!

no, but really, (just) One!

First figgered the system out in my sunday-bathtub;

Then printed primer one, hmm, still had to think once more, resort the sheets in the right arrangement for the 2nd pass. This went alright again across the 10 sheets, and once more i had to resort them for folding and cramping.

Important is, that the cover-sheet with the FST-Logo, includes page 1(Snakey) and that the opposite side of the sheet receives in the 2nd pass pages 2 and 39, so this sheet is "fully integrated" in the booklet.
This will go all right systematically, see below, just don't omit that sheet in the 2nd pass, ok?

Under the supposition, that all sheets are already printed correctly, the "system" can be grasped by looking at the center page in the middle of the book, which shows page 20 and 21 and is the most upper sheet.
All further sheets are sorted in, below the actual heap.
On the backside(facing the table-surface) we have 19 and 22.
Next sheet to sort in, has to face us with p. 18 and 23, which is verified by leafing the rudimentary book, and so on: left page of the new sheet is always 2 less than its predecessor(immediately placed above); if it is, sort it in at the bottom!
Of course there is already a regularity from the printer(and the pdf's), so resorting will be done systematically of some kind; which kind may depend on the printer, if at least one of the 2 of you is clever, You may have no flipping to do at all, i had to do so twice!

Still i'm glad, how it worked, at other times i would have spent at least a kilo of paper, so this course shows some effect i guess; wonder what it'll be when i've also read the booklet thru

I love it already, 'cause i know it comes from Love!

Oh, one tip for the first pass: before printing i made a little mark on one corner of the upper blank sheet in the container, so i had an orientation for how to insert next time.

Now You will have a good guess, what belongs on the other side of a sheet after the first pass.
But this is already arranged by the pdf's; make only shure that the sheets are arranged in the same sequence like during the first pass! And: orient yourself on that little mark you've made, correspondingly for each page, so that you avoid printing over the first side once again, or making the text "stand on the head", or both

If a confusionist like i can do it everyone can do it, have fun!

juergen

juergen · Dec 23, 2007, 11:21:38 AM

Our printer doesn't treat the used paper kindly, so to avoid the paper jams, I just printed both files separately and put the odd pages face-to-face with the even ones (2 with 3, 4 with 5 etc) and then folded in half and it worked right away, except that the book has half of the pages empty (well, maybe these can be used for notes Wink There's a bit of a problem with folding - the odd pages should have a wider empty edge on the *inside* instead of the outside, so it's easier to bind the book together. And also it could be nice to provide a version for full-duplex printers - one pdf which prints everything on one path - as well as another PDF file with a normal page order which can be read online (unless Mystress doesn't want to distribute it electronically)

I wouldn't mind adding a few quotes which had impressed me so far through the starting lessons, but surely these will be different quotes for everyone

Thanx again, cheers & happy holidays!

(*goes back to work on the grounding*

Helen

Mystress · Dec 23, 2007, 03:45:59 PM

Some posts in this thread got lost in the move between servers. Feel free to repost them.

Lady C · Dec 28, 2007, 07:21:24 PM

Hello and happy holidays! I'm glad to be back in the tea room. (My email is still out though...). Thank you so much, Mystress, for the book. I tried to finagle the paper to get two sided but failed, so I printed both sets and folded down the middle. I'll cut them in half and put one page behind the other, that way I'll be able to staple the corner and just flip through. I'll look for anything that might be expanded on and let you know if i see something. Blessings!

Chrisseb · Mar 01, 2008, 09:26:44 AM

Hey,

I could try to fix a new PDF that's easier to print if you post the word document somewhere. I was planning to give a print to a cousin of mine but all the printing fuzz got me overwhelmed

Must confess that i have not actually tried to print it yet...

BR,
Chris

juergen · Mar 17, 2008, 06:02:41 AM

Here comes my tried and tested version of "how to print k-primer".
Comments for improvement are valued!
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*This is intended to help you to printing a booklet(double side) out of the enclosed 2 pdf's in 2 steps on a one side(ordinary) printer. Of course a professional double side printer can also be "abused" for it.

*Load the pdf's with Adobe Acrobat Reader, or another program that you know will do the task.

*When I speak of pages here, the pages of the printer dialog box are meant, not the pages of the Kundalini primer(which appear usually 2 on one side). Here page equals to 'side of a sheet'.

There are 2 kinds of printers:
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Type A prints pages, beginning page 1 to the last page, so You are viewing the blank backsides in the out tray and you'll have to flip the batch around to see your document right from the beginning.

Type B prints pages, beginning with the last page to page 1, and the bunch appears in the out tray with page 1 on top, at once ready to read, which is a bit more convenient than type A; however for printing double side, type A is somewhat easier and here we begin.

A)
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Print MAS_kundalini_primer2.pdf, re-insert the whole bunch with page 1 on top and make sure to align the upper edge of page 1 to the right wall of the printer tray.

Print MAS_kundalini_primer.pdf, take your bunch of sheets, fold and staple.

B)
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Print MAS_kundalini_primer2.pdf, reversed-mode, so the last page of the document may appear on top in the out tray(check 'reverse pages' in Adobe Acrobat Reader print dialog).
Put the bunch in the printer tray again, so the upper long edge of the last page of the document aligns with the right wall of the printer tray.

Print MAS_kundalini_primer.pdf, this time however make shure to uncheck the 'reverse pages'-mark in the printer dialog.

Book-binding
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If you fear no needle and have a tiny screwdriver, you can perforate three holes and draw a thread through them, or use a good stapler.

Precautions:
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1. Before re-insertion for the 2nd print-run remove all remaining paper from the printer tray to avoid jam.
Also, if you can foresee, that the amount of paper in the printer tray won't be enough, don't intervene; let these sheets be printed, until your printer prompts for fresh paper, serve its will and continue printing.

2. Although seemingly landscape format, no need to go to the printer properties and change from 'portrait' to 'landscape', this prints right either way.

3. Aligning the upper long edge of the pre-printed sheet with the *right wall* of the printer tray seems *generally valid*, but you can test, if the right wall is indeed the right wall, by printing a single sheet that you mark with a point in the left front corner of the sheet in the printer tray and see if the upper edge of the printout lies opposite to the mark. Otherwise you would have to orientate to the left wall.

4. Paper-size is A4(European).

5. Make also shure to print for both documents, *all* pages(printer dialog).

Happy book making!

hollyberry · Mar 18, 2008, 04:14:41 PM

Hi from Hollyberry - I just have to say that this Mystress site (s) is amazingly multilayered - everytime I login I end up somewhere really helpful - it's brilliant and is making me smile (really widely now) - anyway - don't know how but before the holidays I found the kundalini primer - parts 1 and 2 - and only a couple of days ago found the time to print them out (and my printer was being co-operative etc.) and I have the lovely book now printed back to back (run the part 1 first then turn your pages over and run the part 2 on them and so long as your printer doesn't jam and cough - they print lovely like a little lovely book to keep near you for inspiration and safe journeying and comfort and relief from fear............wonderful...thank you Mystress).

hollyberry · Mar 18, 2008, 04:30:48 PM

In my over enthusiasm I forgot to say what I found about the printing...sorry. Print Primer part 1.
Then test one of the double page spreads to ascertain which way up your printer and printer settings (depending on what software program you're using) is printing out...........i.e. front to back, back to front rightside up or upside down etc yadda yadda.........when you have done a (or a couple of test runs)test you'll know which way you're setup is orientated - so then start printing each page at a time - so for example, you get page 38 / 3 backed up to page 4 / 37

So you print 1 - 10 (primer part 1) - then turn these pages over to print their reverse sides (2 - 20).
It's just one of those funny orientation things like trying to fly a radio control plane where right and left and up and down have to be understood first and then - you get it......and it's really nice.

If you get a booklet and remove the staples then read the page number they're just backed up together like that.

I'm a dingbat - so I find things like that really nice - like I just learned the meaning of the universe - I am normally so disorientated it makes me very happy to be able to orientate myself into a lovely little printed book........just thanks again.

juergen · Mar 19, 2008, 03:14:24 AM

Ha-ha, the idea of becoming turned into a dingbat in Mystress's book is somewhat tempting

Then i hear a gentle whisper: "be careful what you are wishing for"... $:-\$

Did ya really print part1 first

Dear!
Don't ya know that it is wrrritttten, that the last shall be the first?

Printing K-Primer page by page your-style, as a pregrad for flying school!
"Trainee H. starts right away with lesson 9/9... ...yes the spirals and turbulences, he already passed the print serpentines!"

juergen · Mar 19, 2008, 04:49:37 AM

Oh nothing, sorry!
Thought i had to correct myself as to the printing order of k-primer one and two, but found to have to correct that correction again, so this page should appear empty, sighs.

It seems funny, that there is no option to discard a started page, or did i miss some?

hollyberry · Mar 21, 2008, 02:44:39 AM

Hi Juergen,

Well.......how to say this.........erm - the primer is written as an A5 40 page document it is given to us in
2 PDF files part 1 and then part 2. I take the first PDF file and send it through my printer onto the A4 sheets - it prints beautifully (it has been typeset beautifully, the margins are all good, nothing clips at the edges and shows missing bits - a joy to print).

So now I have 10 x A4 sheets, 2/39, 4/37, 6/35, 8/33, etc and I want to make sure I turn my pages over in the printer and set the printer orientation correct so I get pagespread 1/40 printing top to top with my existing 2/39 - well sometimes I set my printer orientations wrong because I am that way inclined (I crashed by brothers radio controlled plane because I couldn't work out my left/right/up/down/coming toward me/going away/ from me in my fuddled mind

So (and to try not waste ink and paper) I send one sheet through at a time:

1) to test I have orientated my settings right
2) because my printer is a little swine and sometimes will suck 2 sheets through at a time and if it does that then the whole of my 10 A4s (my 20 pages each sides) will be absolutely in a shit mess of wrongness.......and I'm not going to do that this time, just not having it happen - THIS IS GOING TO WORK BEAUTIFULLY I tell myself..................and it did, it did, it blooming well did - lovely!!!!!!

However - I absolutely loved your post because it describes the way I normally carry on everything I do - Gung ho...not listening...not seeing what is right in front of me...ignoring all the warnings signs...yang yang yang - into the mire (muck, bog, shit, mess I just made)........
"Trainee H. starts right away with lesson 9/9... ...yes the spirals and turbulences, he already passed the print serpentines!"

it also is really funny, you have such a lovely wit and way with the words - I can see all the spirals and print turbulences as I steer my project into the aforementioned bog - but I managed to get past the print serpentines ha ha ha (probably straight into the jaws of the mama of all serpents).

I didn't mind the

I am always like with my foot in my mouth like Homer Simpson...doh.......and to be treated like a bro is a great honour and a priviledge...possibly not if you were knocking my head off, but I think it was only the poke in the ribs stage.

But - I am also trying to keep my thinking nowadays more simple, like I get frustrated with anything too complicated because my own personal head RAM (as in computing ROM / RAM etc) is very full of useless information and I am trying a bit every day to clear some of the old useless files out - to make room for knowledge not just information. I think I could get by very well with a tiny bit of knowledge (like you said about the difference between theory and experience) and a lot less data.

Anyway - to stop myself ranting any more I just want to give you a big smile and a hug and thank you for your post that gave me a big grin........you're a star

thanks,

H

P.S. phew and I didn't realise how close I came to being turned into a dingbat - thank heavens I got away.
P.P.S I am a girl although not a very good girl, more of a Huckleberry really I have been a tomboy all my life even now I am an old lady.....so you were pretty close anyway.

juergen · Mar 23, 2008, 06:52:37 AM

HB says:
but I managed to get past the print serpentines ha ha ha (probably straight into the jaws of the mama of all serpents).

this seems unavoidable

HB says:
But - I am also trying to keep my thinking nowadays more simple, like I get frustrated with anything too complicated because my own personal head RAM (as in computing ROM / RAM etc) is very full of useless information and I am trying a bit every day to clear some of the old useless files out

Great! Your example with RAM rocks, i have a similar example with clients and servers (slim clients, i.e. just some flexible hardware(=software + hardware), and lots of streaming, smiles.

HB says:
I could get by very well with a tiny bit of knowledge (like you said about the difference between theory and experience) and a lot less data.

Holy Moly, this resonates! I think the "data" is mostly kind of personality cult, the idea stored into ego consciousness supported by memory blockages in the body mind(the unconscious); we better put there an(intelligent) cd-player/client and listen to the Collective Superconsciousness/Server. At least that's how i seek to grasp it at the moment.
One big lump of burden goes into light by understanding love as unconditioned law: perfection also in 'Titanic on the rocks' so to say, at least that's how i'm starting to look at it; nearly the same word: love//law, isn't it? Less brooding anyway; German word picked up in English is 'weltschmerz', worldpain. Into light with it!

HB says:
Anyway - to stop myself ranting any more I just want to give you a big smile and a hug and thank you for your post that gave me a big grin........you're a star
You big heart, can't see no rant whatsoever, You make me big smile too; i wanted to be a star when i conspired for world rule, but this went the other way, now i'm content to see it arrive for "Teenage" Witches and seeking my goodnatured place there.(Do women get older at all, these days..?)

"P.S. phew and I didn't realise how close I came to being turned into a dingbat - thank heavens I got away."
better stay mindful!

"P.P.S I am a girl although not a very good girl, more of a Huckleberry really I have been a tomboy all my life even now I am an old lady.....so you were pretty close anyway."
Garbage did a beautiful song: 'Androgyny', know it?

Now to the dry stuff, back to the roots:

Of course You are completely right, only imagine printing 500 pages double side and shit happens..
A most secure and easy system, is to print it page by page, beginning either with the last pages of 2th files or with the first pages, completing one sheet after the other, perhaps i should add this under 'precautions'.

Here is a completely different idea: organize yourself 10 sheets A3(drawing pad?), fold them to an empty booklet(and staple), then print the hell how you like it, 2th files completely, cut them in A5 and glue them in the empty book, voila, you get it? ..plenty room for becoming creative.

notorious sighs and salem-hugs..

Mystress · Mar 24, 2008, 09:18:34 PM

Here is a completely different idea: organize yourself 10 sheets A3(drawing pad?), fold them to an empty booklet(and staple), then print the hell how you like it, 2th files completely, cut them in A5 and glue them in the empty book, voila, you get it? ..plenty room for becoming creative

That is how the first one was made, actually... Long before this pdf existed, I did a paste-up version as you describe and took it in to a printer to have copies photocopied double-sided for a workshop. Having the cover separate meant it could go on the more expensive colour photocopier by itself, and the logo looks prettier without the ink from the other side showing through.

Tough to get the colour right though, it usually comes out peacock blue instead of a perfect teal. Lower the cyan and up the yellow... when you get so you cannot quite make up your mind if it is blue or green, but maybe a tiny bit more green than blue? You have the right colour. Cafepress are the only printers who get it right so far.

You can also print the pages and paste them into *any* book... a hardcover journal, for example or your FSt student journal. Glue them to the fridge, wallpaper your bathroom... buy magnetic printer paper off the web, stick the pages all over your car... the possibilities!

I am really enjoying this thread.
Eh, gave you back a puzzle, Juergen! Harder than the one you gave me!

So, with all this, it sounds like the instructions I gave: print one doc on one side of 10 pages, print the other doc on the other side and try not to get them upside down... fold and staple or lace - were essentially correct! Juergens tip of marking one corner of the top sheet of the paper before printing to find out which way up to re-insert them for side 2 is very clever for the "try not to get them upside down" part.

My printer spits them out face up, so they end up in reverse order already when I turn the stack of pages over.

Thing is, I've realized this puzzle is a little more puzzling than I intended. This version had to be fixed before it could be printed in Holland because some words were mysteriously replaced with puzzling question marks in the pdf conversion. It was the new version Bobby in Holland made that had the cover as a separate page because having type on the back marred the beauty of the FST logo.

Unfortunately I could not find that version, try as I might searching all files on 2 computers. It was stored on my palm Lifedrive which suffered a boating accident 3 days after I returned from Europe. It was not an easier puzzle, we went through a lot of paper making enough for the Sweden workshop. But, it did say "Goddess" instead of ( ? )

Juergen I'll send you a word doc to play with, when I find an up to date one. Blessings!

juergen · Mar 25, 2008, 10:32:32 AM

M says
Tough to get the colour right though, it usually comes out peacock blue instead of a perfect teal. Lower the cyan and up the yellow... when you get so you cannot quite make up your mind if it is blue or green, but maybe a tiny bit more green than blue? You have the right colour. Cafepress are the only printers who get it right so far.

Tinkering this conversion from monitor to printer perfectly, is a science of its own; i'm fairly glad that the outprint looks nice; as progess is made this issue will dissolve "by itself"; seeking perfection with manual corrections, is what i can relate to, largely, but it's Sisiphus work

M says
You can also print the pages and paste them into *any* book... a hardcover journal, for example or your FSt student journal. Glue them to the fridge, wallpaper your bathroom... buy magnetic printer paper off the web, stick the pages all over your car... the possibilities!

Goethe had no printer but he had a whole room fully written on all the walls; if it became a sort of heavy luggage for him i don't know, but eventually he decided to whitewash it all, with great regrets afterwards..

M says
My printer spits them out face up, so they end up in reverse order already when I turn the stack of pages over.
Why turn the stack over? I think You better let them face up, put them back in the printer face up!
..But putting them back in the printer your way(stack of pages turned), the blank side is face up, right? But this should not work, because from my experience it will generally(for all printers?) be the face down side which is to be printed? and this should of course be the blank side.
Normally i would say: blank side face down, pre-printed side face up!
Still i'm not absolutely shure, but it can be verified by the little test-mark, for shure.
In the case, that the print should appear on the side where the test point is drawn(face-up side, from the perspective of the in tray), my system doesn't work anymore.(But this "cannot" be, smiles).

So please, guys if this should be the case with anyone of You, please give an input!

For a first copy Hollyberry's system of completing sheet after sheet might be best anyway.
Because this is completely manually, the printer-type(A spits out face down, B(like Yours) spits out face up) becomes neglectable. The feeling for orientation issues will happen at the latest after a couple of sheets. So this method is optimally experiential, no such bad thing

M says
some words were mysteriously replaced with puzzling question marks in the pdf conversion.

Sometimes it's usual that after all kind of conversions, there may appear square '-letters'; then Your question marks are slightly more convenient, yet signifying that the "translator" was at odds, what to do

In the version You offer for download, i also found 1 or 2 question marks.
The crucial point in the conversion of K-primer may be after the step from portrait to "landscape"(=2 pages on 1 side)in Word: and then export "landscape" to pdf. Because this type of export might be a bit more a special one; ..and it's mostly the special cases where IT gives away, i don't know.

M says
that had the cover as a separate page because having type on the back marred the beauty of the FST logo.

..like in the version we have now, if we print double side. The print on the backside gives the cover side a type thing of a workshop and study character, no so bad thing

M says
Juergen I'll send you a word doc to play with, when I find an up to date one. Blessings!

Fine, then i stop in the meantime tinkering these K-primer pdf's.

Another idea oven-fresh:
I know You like to hear feedback from seekers about Your products; one way to achieve, could be sort of dead-end mail accounts, like kprimer@fire-serpent.com, or fst-course@fire-serpent.com and so on, where everyone can give their input, without always expecting an answer from You, just as a means to provide You feedback(and You give it back as time gets ripe..).

Hope i didn't miss to often the point, in stuff where missing it only once is already deadly

M says
Eh, gave you back a puzzle, Juergen! Harder than the one you gave me!

Ha ha You give me always mysterious puzzles, at least You are Mystress and this is Mystress's blog.
Cool place anyway!

Mystress · Mar 25, 2008, 11:32:43 AM

Another idea oven-fresh:
I know You like to hear feedback from seekers about Your products; one way to achieve, could be sort of dead-end mail accounts, like kprimer@fire-serpent.com, or fst-course@fire-serpent.com and so on, where everyone can give their input, without always expecting an answer from You, just as a means to provide You feedback(and You give it back as time gets ripe..).

I think you were reading my mind again, while I wrote this post

http://fire-serpent.com/tearoom/index.php?topic=896.msg3573;topicseen#msg3573

I got an idea to make a guestbook for the public pages, that only members could post to but the public could see. Not quite sure how to do that... it can wait.

There already is a feedback form on FST. Has been for years. I created it and sent out the url to the members list a few years back. Very few people responded so I sort of forgot about it. Still works, though.

http://fire-serpent.com/tantra/poll.html

Very detailed (too long) feedback form, available to members only. Option to remain completely anonymous. You can fill out as much, or as little of the form as you like. There are no "required" fields. Feedback is always welcomed.

Blessings!

Mystress · Mar 25, 2008, 12:39:12 PM

Goethe had no printer but he had a whole room fully written on all the walls; if it became a sort of heavy luggage for him i don't know, but eventually he decided to whitewash it all, with great regrets afterwards..

He needed better tech. There was a CSI episode where a writer used a UV light and uv ink felt pen to write all over the walls. Turn the light off and the words vanished. Another one about a songwriter musician who used black felt tip marker pen on hotel windows for a black board... get out the windex to erase. (Of course, this being CSI.. the first writer murdered his wife's lover for plagirism, after the lover discovered the secret writing, copied it and published it as his own. The songwriter's wife committed suicide from loneliness by drinking the window cleaner.)

The sliding glass patio door beside my desk sometimes becomes populated with post-it notes. Especially if I am doing something that requires visual organization, like working out the file tree structure of a new site. I can peel the post-its off and file them for the next update.

experience it will generally(for all printers?) be the face down side which is to be printed? and this should of course be the blank side.

Not on mine. Epson Stylus 3-in-1 is the most common type of home printer in North America.
http://www.epson.ca/cgi-bin/ceStore/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=56291070

paper goes in blank side up, comes out printed side up, and the first page ends up on the bottom of the pile. So when I turn the pile over, the blank side of the cover is on top ready to receive page 2. Once the pages go through again, they are back in the correct order for folding and stapling.

I manage to get it upside down anyway. Where I get confused is the top of the page in the blank stack becomes the bottom of the printed page, (pages go into the printer head first) and the book has a landscape orientation. Makes a difference if you flip the stack over horizontally or vertically. Will the top of the landscape page be on the left or right coming out? Flipping end over end, (lengthwise) is correct and flipping sideways turnes the landscape printed pages upside down. Thus, marking the top corner of the blank page is still useful, to remind me which way up to place the pages back in the printer after I turn the stack over.

Fun puzzle indeed!

Even if you make a new pdf, it will still need printing instructions...

I concluded, letting people work out a puzzle from 2 documents (side a and side b) was easier than trying to give instructions to make a conventional linear document into a booklet, for 100 different different kinds of printers, some of which may not have the capability.

HB: The booklet, is for printing. If people just want to read it on the screen... most of the contents are on K teacher or the Kundalini pages of domin8rex.com already. Plus the update of K teacher has a printable pdf version of every page available on the site. The tech savvy can print them and make their own custom reminder book.

Hey, wanna sneak peek? The K-teacher site update is nearly done but not live yet.
http://kundalini-teacher.com/index.php

juergen · Mar 26, 2008, 06:39:49 PM

M says
Not on mine. Epson Stylus 3-in-1 is the most common type of home printer in North America.
http://www.epson.ca/cgi-bin/ceStore/consumer/consDetail.jsp?BV_UseBVCookie=yes&oid=56291070

paper goes in blank side up, comes out printed side up, and the first page ends up on the bottom of the pile. So when I turn the pile over, the blank side of the cover is on top ready to receive page 2. Once the pages go through again, they are back in the correct order for folding and stapling.

Then i think You may have checked 'reverse order'(reverse pages) by default, either in Acrobat Reader or in Your printer driver settings(from any Windows- (or Mac-?) ordinary print dialogue of any application (e.g. Acrobat Reader), choose: 'properties/preferences' to the printer driver settings and go to the page layout tab, where You can find this checkbox...
Or access Your printer directly over control panel..
Still for this purpose it works fine as it is

Non-reverse ought to output page1 on top, of any document. To have it at the bottom is usually somewhat like ingrown nails, eh?

Anyway, as for my How to print textfile this tells clearly: another new printer type detected, and these settings as i think You must have, are exactly the right ones, for printing the k-primer on this printer.

M says
Where I get confused is the top of the page in the blank stack becomes the bottom of the printed page, (pages go into the printer head first) and the book has a landscape orientation. Makes a difference if you flip the stack over horizontally or vertically.

My first guess would be, to flip it vertically

M says
Where I get confused is the top of the page in the blank stack becomes the bottom of the printed page..

The top of the page in the blank stack is the logo page(1st document page of k-primer1); since You operate reverse-order, 1st page is printed 1st, that is of k-primer2 the page with booklet-page2(directly behind the logo), and this 1st sheet becomes the bottom page in the out-tray, with the new print up-face(ingrown nail) and the logo-side down-face, right to fold, etc.

M says
Will the top of the landscape page be on the left or right coming out? Flipping end over end, (lengthwise) is correct and flipping sideways turnes the landscape printed pages upside down. Thus, marking the top corner of the blank page is still useful, to remind me which way up to place the pages back in the printer after I turn the stack over.

Considering it again, the upper edge of a sheet in landscape print as we have here is easy;
maintaining the long-edges by flipping vertically is guaranteed since all printers work length-wise; and we ought to maintain these for booklet print. Always flip vertically, any printer, maintains long-edges-alignment!

What i've learnt, is that printable sides may show face up, thanx Mystress(allround-teacher).

M says
Even if you make a new pdf, it will still need printing instructions... Grin

M says
I concluded, letting people work out a puzzle from 2 documents (side a and side b) was easier than trying to give instructions to make a conventional linear document into a booklet, for 100 different different kinds of printers, some of which may not have the capability.

It's true, there are instructions to follow as well, but printer-independently, since Acrobat Reader makes the deal with any printer autopilot, and instructions can be limited to Acrobat Reader i think, since anyone will have it.
There is a special booklet option to choose, and one or to other checkmarks, that's it.
Further, one statement would do it: "Besides, print Your booklets as usual"

, LOL! well i don't know, i guess You have a point, most of the problem is, how to flip, align etc. Maybe to say: "Maintain the long edges(like in-tray like out-tray) and make shure to re-insert for printable sides" would do it, probably so.
Now with 3 printer types we can give clear instructions for the 2-file-system and it will also do alright.

However, You have more and better choices to influence the final layout of the book as a whole, the way You have it now, 2file; for instance, if You want empty pages on definite locations, e.g. behind the FST-logo, etc.
So after all this may be the better choice, show them Your editorial whhhimmm, mmh, feels very alright

This way there is only one authorized print-version, the other way some plagiaristic trolls might feel inspired to modify further and further, You know, as if there were no copyright.

Remains only the problem with mysterious replacements of some words with question marks, maybe a migration from Word to Staroffice could help or installing 'pdf-creator', that can be retrieved in any word-processor and similar application on Your system, and allows export to pdf.

M says
the first writer murdered his wife's lover for plagirism
Where is the old school, tsk tsk...murders him for plagirism

M says
The songwriter's wife committed suicide from loneliness by drinking the window cleaner
Shit happens, when they miss You on the net.

M says
The sliding glass patio door beside my desk sometimes becomes populated with post-it notes. Especially if I am doing something that requires visual organization, like working out the file tree structure of a new site. I can peel the post-its off and file them for the next update.

Great idea! My patio door is still empty and boring and just a few hours ago i found a package with colored post-its lying around; what holds me back from trying?
Or maybe rather still the black felt marker and window cleaner.. when Exie visits...

Good loops and serpentines!

hollyberry · Mar 27, 2008, 04:52:26 PM

Hiya - sorry I've been away for a couple of days - this thread has got really literary....it is really nice to read fragments of very painterly prose - gives nice images to conjure with. I must also mention as a little aside, that lots of the quotes from other people works as snippets of inspiration are very enjoyable too...thanks Mystress.

And hi Juergen - thanks for your thoughts into words, I was again very charmed....Garbage, yes very good band, liked 'stupid girl' and I love Shirley Mansons face from a painters point of view...and women do get older these days and they look at the teenage witches and think Holy Moly (I like that expression) they scare me.....I think I just feel a bit tired at the moment though, like just a bit too much energy has leaked away - I'm sure I'll get some of it back when the Spring comes.

P.S. I have actually been having some fun being creative - modelling little figures in plasticine and making papier mache - like playschool, just thinking of making a miniature theatre of creatures from my ego so I can organise my thoughts and change the backdrops...nice idea, thanks all.

Oh and P.P.S. I think that little Primer is actually so big in terms of its contents it really deserves to be raising a little cash for M - I mean when people write helpful little widgets of software it can be offered as shareware and donations can be made - is there a hassle free non expensive way that folks could send small amounts of thank you payments as donations as much as they could afford rather than fixed amounts? Just an idea.......Goddess needs us all to be able to keep existing to do the work, whatever that work happens to be. Just ideas......lol Hollyberry

juergen · Mar 30, 2008, 03:16:20 PM

Hi again, Hollyberry!

Today my tear-off calendar reads(in my translation): "(The)Important (thing) is joy of life; then (old)age won't matter", by someone called Ursula Andress; http://www.geocities.com/ursulaandress2/
One aspect of her being 'young' is her liaison with a much younger man(as the short bio there says).
This might be her appearence when she made that statement: http://www.geocities.com/ursulaandress3/pictures/022.jpg Her philosophy expresses as a certain self-assurance; it's important for men as well, for who can wish to belong to a species, where the decicive division(women) is not self-assured?

HB:
....it is really nice to read fragments of very painterly prose - gives nice images to conjure with.

Interesting!

HB:
I love Shirley Mansons face from a painters point of view.

I guess, so she does; does a lot of painting on her face, maybe a bit more functional than most of her peers; so there may be a painter's link...

HB:
...and change the backdrops

like this term, it brings to the point, what most people are mostly concerned about, even billionaires, who made last year only 15 billions instead of 20

But this path can really produce it, i'm shure! Maybe not for the billionaire, his or her 5 "lost" billions, that is

HB:
I think I just feel a bit tired

Hehe, reminds me of the 'little bones'-vid, that Mystress gave a link to, end last year. Shortly one can see a painting there showing a female with a long witchy hat..it has an impression on me of great power, and i have my guessings who is portrayed there, and maybe who painted it; painting is quite an impressive art, again: as long as it is functional in some ways. Your idea of 'playschool' sounds terrific, good creations!

Just one little sermon to conclude:
One Hollyberry gives more wine than a whole waggon of straw, eh?

hollyberry · Mar 30, 2008, 04:41:00 PM

Thanks for the encouragements J - I am going off to do some work to get my 'joy of life' back - I think this is the only thing I need to be doing right now - everything else will do its thing after that.
Warm regards,
Hollyberry