Yesterday, (before I got frustrated and quit!) I was trying to put some journaling across the width of two 8.5 by 11 inch sheets, on the computer. I want to put the heading and journaling across both sheets so that each line spans the whole 17 inch width and then comes all the way back to the beginning. I'm not explaining this well, but hope you get what I mean. In order to make that large a textbox, I had to show my page as larger and then when I would go to print it, it would automatically go the other way (landscape), Help, does a computer even do this? Would appreciate any help. It doesn't work to make two separate textboxes because I can't tell how much typing I can put on the other textbox if you KWIM. Thanks, Justasiam

Hmmmmmmmm - not sure if I'm understanding the problem you're encountering but this is what I do when I want to have journaling across a 2 page spread. Are you working in PSCS2? I am, so if you're not, I don't know if you can "translate" this into your program of choice.

I would make one canvas 17 inches wide by 11 inches high. Then, using my text tool, I would draw out my text box and proceed to type. When I'm finished with my layout, I would save the .psd file. Then, I would flatten the image and, using my crop tool with the dimensions set at 8.5 x 11, I would crop the left hand side and do a "save as", (I usually save as a jpeg since I've already saved my entire canvas as a .psd file), then undo my crop in my history palette and crop the right hand side accordingly and do another "save as".

You might encounter a problem of having words cut in half because of the crop - in which case, when you're creating the layout, make sure you have a guide at the 8.5 inches and try to adjust your text so that nothing is going to get cut in half - might be a bit difficult if you're working with a lot of text though.

HTH!

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Thanks for the post...I am just learning Photoshop Elements and am not very good at it either yet, so not real technically savvy. I have always done my journaling in Microsoft Word and haven't tried any other way. I did put my page size as 11 by 17 but when I went to print it, it would not print the "short way across" because it wouldnt recognize that size on a 8.5 by 11 printer. So I have to find a way to "fool" my printer, I guess, LOL. Justasiam

I think what Andy meant is, start out as one large document (17X11) but then when you have your journaling the way you want it, cut it into two separate pages, each 8.5 X 11. So when you go to print, you're printing an 8.5 X 11 page, not a 17X11 page (just thought of another problem you might run into though... if your printer doesn't do 'borderless' prints, you might have some text cut off the right side of the left hand page, and vice versa)

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How do I cut it into two separate pages? For some reason, my printer wouldn't do this...is there a step by step plan? What I ended up doing was making two textboxes, one for each side, and then typing a line in TB 1 and finishing it in TB2, and then back again. That worked o.k. though not as good as I had wanted it to be. Thanks for the help though.

Hi again. What program are you using? You might want to ask your question again in the forum specific to your program for the best advice. If you're using photoshop, I can try to explain it here. (or see Andy's earlier message... it's not something your printer "does," it's something you do before you're trying to print)

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