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CD Booklet Template for LaTeX (c) 2003 -- 2004 John Quah http://www.math.umd.edu/~jquah/art/cdbooklets/ Introduction: As computers have become more ubiquitous and more powerful, consumers of new computers have learned to expect more from them, even the low-end models. Whereas in the early 1990s computer shoppers had come to expect a CD-ROM drive with their new machines, by the turn of the millenium the CD-RW drive had acquired much the same status. Useful for data archival, hard drive backups, and sharing files, the recordable CD and its successor, the rewriteable CD, gained popularity to the point where computer advertisements on network television showed people playing custom audio CD mixes in their car stereos. Programmers saw a market for CD-burning software and related applications; thus, specialized programs were written to make the CD-burning process easier for the end user. On this page I offer a partial solution to the problem of labeling CD jewel cases. Frustrated with tools like cdlabelgen (whose limited capabilities made it difficult to manually create nested bullet lists and tables on the cd booklet) and OpenOffice.org (whose bloat demanded hard disk space that my infrequent use would not justify), I created a LaTeX template for the purpose of making CD booklets. The template itself defines the dimensions of the CD booklet and reads two additional source files -- the inside page layout and the outside page layout -- for each CD booklet it is asked to create. This template only creates the booklet for the front of the jewel case. If you know how to create a vertically-oriented text box in LaTeX, send me the code and I will update the template to include a traycard for the jewel case. In return, you'll get an appreciative mention in the ChangeLog. License: You are free to download, modify, and use these files in any manner consistent with the following restrictions. You may share the files (modified or unmodified) with anyone (even publishing them on your own website). If you distribute to a third party the PDF, postscript, DVI, or other typeset output created from this template or its derivatives, you must make the source code for the typeset output available to said third party, under the same conditions that this template is made available to you. Instructions for manual typesetting: Once you've edited the source files to your heart's content, enter these commands to create a printable document. latex cdbooklets.tex dvips -t landscape -o cdbooklets.ps cdbooklets.dvi ps2pdf cdbooklets.ps Depending on the setup of your print spooler, you may not need to run all three commands before you have something you can send to the printer. You can stop after the first command if your print spooler can interpret DVI, or after the second command, if postscript is supported.