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I've gotten super into Zine making this year and love this mini-8-pager format. I typically carry them around to share information with others, and get back to a world of print in our digital divide. People really like the bite size knowledge they can fit in a pocket.

I picked up a slightly different format which is double sided and two per piece of paper.

PDF example and Affinity Publisher 2 files: https://limewire.com/d/Vi7Td#q7xsY0HXLY

The hardest parts of formatting these are (a) not making the font too small (b) getting the folds to land in the middle of pages (if you are OCD about that like me)

(edit, added both file types for a few examples)

This is another online zine maker I came across as well which supports markdown / json: https://zeenster.com/ | https://github.com/virgilvox/zine-maker

If you want to mass produce them

- Brother Inkjet Printer

- HFS guillotine paper cutter

- Martin Yale P7200 RapidFold

I won't be clicking on that first link because I'm on a work machine but is that _Limewire_?

yeah, it's totally different from how it used to be, first google search result for file upload and share ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Here's a Google Drive link with the same files: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1jjp8fOn1fsQ0vvix84dm...

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