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[#]: subject: (How to write zines with simple tools)
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[#]: via: (https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/01/ways-to-write-zines-without-fancy-tools/)
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[#]: author: (Julia Evans https://jvns.ca/)
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How to write zines with simple tools
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People often ask me what tools I use to write my zines ([the answer is here][1]). Answering this question as written has always felt slightly off to me, though, and I couldn’t figure out why for a long time.
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I finally realized last week that instead of “what tools do you use to write zines?” some people may have actually wanted to know “how can I do this myself?”! And “buy a $500 iPad” is not a terribly useful answer to that question – it’s not how I got started, iPads are kind of a weird fancy way to write zines, and most people don’t have them.
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So this blog post is about more traditional (and easier to get started with) ways to write zines.
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We’re going to start out by talking about the mechanics of how to write the zine, and then talk about how to assemble it into a booklet.
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### Way 1: Write it on paper
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This is how I made my first zine (spying on your programs with strace) which you can see here: <https://jvns.ca/strace-zine-unfolded.pdf>.
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Here’s an example of a page I drew on paper this morning pretty quickly. It looks kind of bad because I scanned it with my phone, but if you use a real scanner (like I did with the strace PDF above), the scanned version comes out better.
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<https://jvns.ca/images/drawing-status-codes.png>
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### Way 2: Use a Google doc
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The next option is to use a Google doc (or whatever other word processor you prefer). [Here’s the Google doc I wrote for the below image][2], and here’s what it looks like:
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<https://jvns.ca/images/docs-status-codes.png>
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They key thing about this Google doc approach is to apply some “less is more”. It’s intended to be printed as part of a booklet on **half** a sheet of letter paper, which means everything needs to be twice as big for it to look good.
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### Way 3: Use an iPad
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This is what I do (use the Notability app on iPad). I’m not going to talk about this method much because this post is about using more readily available tools.
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<https://jvns.ca/images/ipad-status-codes.png>
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### Way 4: Use a single sheet of paper
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This is a subset of “Write it on paper” – the [Wikibooks page on zine making][3] has a great guide that shows how to write out a tiny zine on 1 piece of paper and then fold it up to make a little booklet. Here are the pictures of the steps from the Wikibooks page:
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<https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-plan.png> <https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-1.png> <https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-2.png> <https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-3.png> <https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-4.png> <https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-5.png> <https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-6.png> <https://jvns.ca/images/Zinemaking-folding-8cut-7.png>
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Sumana Harihareswara’s [Playing with python][4] zine is a nice example of a zine that’s intended to be folded up in that way.
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### Way 5: Adobe Illustrator
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I’ve never used Adobe Illustrator so I’m not going to pretend that I know anything about it or put together an example using it, but I hear it’s a way people do book layout.
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### booklets: the photocopier method
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So you’ve written a bunch of pages and want to assemble them into a booklet. One way to do this (and what I did for my first zine about strace!) is the photocopier method. There’s a great guide by Julia Gfrörer in [this tweet][5], which I’m going to reproduce here:
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That explanation is excellent and I don’t have anything to add. I did it that way and it worked great.
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If you want to buy a print copy of that how-to-make-zines zine from Thruban Press, you can [get it here on Etsy][10].
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### booklets: the computer method
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If you’ve made your zine in Google Docs or in another computery way, you probably want a more computery way of assembling the pages into a booklet.
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**what I use: pdflatex**
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I do this using the `pdfpages` LaTeX extension. This sounds complicated but it’s not really, you don’t need to learn latex or anything. You just need to have pdflatex on your system, which is a `sudo apt install texlive-base` away on Ubuntu. The steps are:
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1. Get a PDF with the pages from your zine (pages need to be a multiple of 4)
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2. Get the latex file from [this gist][11]
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3. Replace `/home/bork/http-zine.pdf` with the path to your PDF and `1-28` with `1-however many pages are in your zine`.
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4. run `pdflatex formatted-zine.tex`
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5. Tweak the parameters until it looks the way you want. The [documentation for the pdfpages package is here][12]
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I like using this relatively complicated method because there are always small tweaks I want to make like “oh, the right margin is too big, crop it a little bit” and the pdfpages package has tons of options that let me make those tweaks.
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**other methods**
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1. On Linux you can use the `pdfjam` bash script, which is just a wrapper around the pdfpages latex package. This is what I used to do but today I find it simpler to use the pdfpages latex package directly.
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2. There’s a program called [Booklet Creator][13] for Mac and Windows that [@mrfb uses][14]. It looks pretty simple to use.
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3. If you convert your PDF to a ps file (with `pdf2ps` for instance), `psnup` can do this. I tried `cat file.ps | psbook | psnup -2 > booklet.ps` and it worked, though the resulting PDFs are a little slow to load in my PDF viewer for some reason.
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4. there are probably a ton more ways to do this, if you know more let me know
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### making zines is easy and low tech
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That’s all! I mostly wanted to explain that zines are an easy low tech thing to do and if you think making them sounds fun, you definitely 100% do not need to use any fancy expensive tools to do it, you can literally use some sheets of paper, a Sharpie, a pen, and spend $3 at your local print shop to use the photocopier.
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### resources
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summary of the resources I linked to:
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* Guide to putting together zines with a photocopier by Julia Gfrörer: [this tweet][5], [get it on Etsy][10]
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* [Wikibooks page on zine making][3]
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* Notes on making zines using Google Docs: [this twitter thread][14]
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* [Stolen Sharpie Revolution][15] (the first book I read about making zines). You can also get it on Amazon if you want but it’s probably better to buy directly from their site.
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* [Booklet Creator][13]
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via: https://jvns.ca/blog/2019/09/01/ways-to-write-zines-without-fancy-tools/
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作者：[Julia Evans][a]
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选题：[lujun9972][b]
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[a]: https://jvns.ca/
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[b]: https://github.com/lujun9972
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[1]: https://twitter.com/b0rk/status/1160171769833185280
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[2]: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1byzfXC0h6hNFlWXaV9peJpX-GamJOrJ70x9nu1dZ-m0/edit?usp=sharing
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[3]: https://en.m.wikibooks.org/wiki/Zine_Making/Putting_pages_together
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[4]: https://www.harihareswara.net/pix/playing-with-python-zine/playing-with-python-zine.pdf
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[5]: https://twitter.com/thorazos/status/1158556879485906944
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[6]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBQFUC0X4AAPTU1?format=jpg&name=small
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[7]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBQFUC0XsAEBhHf?format=jpg&name=small
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[8]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBQFUC1XUAAKDIB?format=jpg&name=small
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[9]: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EBQFUDRX4AMkIAr?format=jpg&name=small
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[10]: https://www.etsy.com/thorazos/listing/693692176/thuban-press-guide-to-analog-self?utm_source=Copy&utm_medium=ListingManager&utm_campaign=Share&utm_term=so.lmsm&share_time=1565113962419
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[11]: https://gist.github.com/jvns/b3de1d658e2b44aebb485c35fb1a7a0f
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[12]: http://texdoc.net/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/pdfpages.pdf
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[13]: https://www.bookletcreator.com/
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[14]: https://twitter.com/mrfb/status/1159478532545888258
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[15]: http://www.stolensharpierevolution.org/
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