January 29, 2007

PagePacker, a little Mac OS X app that makes it easy to print one-off 8-page booklets. The eight pages can be anything you want, using one of the provided pages for organizer-like notes, to-dos and calendars, to any image or PDF you can make yourself. Examples given include an iCal calendar with your appointments, a web page such as driving directions, or a photograph.

The clever folding directions make a quick 8-page booklet with printing on only one side of the paper. I'd like to see something that could take advantage of a duplex printer, or even a cheap printer can print on two sides (like my Canon iP4000). It'd be tricky: Even nice duplex printers have alignment problems, and I'm not sure there's an easy fold-and-cut method for making all pages usable. But a single sheet of 8-1/2"x11" folded three times is a little thick for just 8 images.

I'm looking for more ways to use "paper export" from my computer. I don't even print envelopes because the skill is too far from the tip of my brain to be convenient, but it seems like a little practice would go a long way.