Social Studies Curriculum Resources
How to Make Postcard-Sized Copies of the Posters:
Many teachers and parents have requested
directions for making the posters smaller so that students can use them
for review. Directions for making postcard-sized copies follow:
Materials Needed:
·
Adobe Acrobat Software
· White
Cardstock (Four poster
pages will print on each page and can be cut apart.)
· Color
Printer
Directions:
- Open posters page in Netscape.
- Open each poster link and save to your hard drive. You can
either press the disk icon or go to the “File” menu and choose “Save As.”
Because there are over one hundred posters, you may want to select only
a few posters to begin with. Most of the posters are one page, but a few
have multiple pages.
- After you have saved all the posters, open Adobe Acrobat software.
- Open the first poster in Adobe Acrobat.
- Go to the “Document” menu and choose “Insert Pages.”
- Select another poster that you saved in Step 2. In the window
that pops up, select “After” in the “Location” drop-down menu and click on
“Last” under “Page.”
- Repeat Steps 5 and 6 until you have added all of the files
you saved in Step 2.
- Go to “File” and select “Print.” Select the “Name of the Printer”
as “Acrobat Distiller.”
- Press the “Properties” button, which is located along side
the printer name.
- Select the “Layout” tab. In “Pages per Sheet,” select 4 from
the drop-down menu.
- Click on “OK.”
- Click “OK” again.
- When prompted, name
the file and save it to your hard drive.
- You can open and print
the file you saved in Step 13 as you would any regular PDF file. You can
print as many copies of this new file as you need, perhaps one for each
student in your class.