Comments on: Amazing Folding Calculator PDF

By: powers

powers — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 03:44:07 +0000

Numbers are all jacked up.

By: Sally

Sally — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 00:32:14 +0000

This looks pretty cool. More form fields would be nice though.

By: James Fritz

James Fritz — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:56:38 +0000

@Keith – thanks for the catch on the typo (it is now fixed)
I also agree that it would be great to change the values, but I didn’t make the PDF. I just wanted to to share it with everyone here.

By: Keith N

Keith N — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 17:42:46 +0000

I agree with previous comments that it would be helpful to input a page width into the formula. Also, the difference in width between the panels is a bit too small for our use here. We generally figure that the smallest panel in a 3-panel brochure (actually a 6-panel brochure) is 1/8″ more narrow than the cover panel, not 1/16″ as calculated in this PDF. It’s a great tool, but I’d love to be able to change the values.

Also, in the opening paragraph of the article, shouldn’t “preform” be “perform”?

By: LJ

LJ — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:17:18 +0000

while this PDF is handy, it seems to me this PDF was actually created by the printing services at the University of Minnesota and not Burton & Mayer Printing. The logo on the PDF looks like the printing services logo as seen here: http://www.copyright.umn.edu/home.htm

By: greg

greg — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:29:31 +0000

i’ll chime in with another “this is great, but most of us work with flat sizes, not folded sizes, when creating documents.” having to use the folded size means i have to do the math first to figure out my dimensions. i don’t know many (any?) people who start with folded sizes to figure out flat size.

By: LuisRM

LuisRM — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:50:43 +0000

Bob – It’s not the paper size you enter, it’s the panel size. I agree, it’s very cool to see what you can do with a pdf, but overall paper size to determine fold is what people maybe thought would be more intuitive/useful.

By: Bob Smallman

Bob Smallman — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:48:09 +0000

I must be doing something wrong. When I enter (for example) a height of 8.5 and a width of 11 and then ask it to calculate, the outcome shows a diagram with a height of 8.5 but a width of 41.9375. What am I missing?

By: Laurens

Laurens — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:14:25 +0000

I asked for a gate fold and first entered 210 as the width (this being the width of an A4 in millimeters). Then I tried again with 21 as the width, this time using centimeters. The proposed dimensions for the gate fold are twice different, which should not be the case.

I think this tool needs to indicate which unit of measurement is supposed to be used.

By: almaink

almaink — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 13:59:14 +0000

Only thing wrong is it needs more form fields. No paper size for width. If I want my cover panel to be 3 3/4″ instead of the normal 3 11/16’s this program increases the paper width instead of decreasing the last or tucked in panel.