I spent some time making a template for notebook paper college ruled on Excel. This way you can use what ever paper you want. My favorite is 28Lb Hammermill Laser-jet paper. It writes as smooth as silk when using any of the Noodlers eternals and a Lamy extra fine, which is usually scratchy with most other paper. The only problem I have, is I don't know how to get it onto this site to share. If someone could walk me through that part, it would be most appreciated.

To get your excel file in a format uploadable here, open the file, click on Print, and for the printer, select adobe pdf. You can give it the same name it has as an excel file, since the extension (pdf vs xls) is different. It is not intuitive, but it works. One can upload pdf's fairly simply, which I assume you already know how to do.

Thank you for sharing the fruit of your labor. Enjoy.

Donnie

Here is my first attempt at getting the template on. I didn't have the plug-in to covert it from excel, so I turned it into a word-picture doc, which is not exactly what I wanted but check it out.

Here is a new version with thinner lines, hope this helps.

Thank you Loveforwords.

Here is a new version with thinner lines, hope this helps.

no problem, thanks for the thanks.

Thanks, this could come in handy. I recently have given up on cheap Leveger and Franklin paper and gone to a good quality paper. Absolutely amazing difference. So I may pad some of this with lines. FYI, padding at Kinkos is 50cents per pad when you supply your own paper. JD

Interesting. I didn't know that it was even an option. I actually three hole punch the paper I make, cause I need it for a binder for school.

by the way. I actually have these Documents in Excel file, which resembles notebook paper, showing the line variation. The problem is, this site won't allow excel files.

Email it to me, I'll convert it to pdf for you.

Double post I know.. but here's a link to the paper.. I hope it's ok.

http://www.savefile.com/files/1536365 all in pdf format.

I downloaded this, but no lines appeared, only an empty rectangle.

For the PDF version, the lines appear to be uneven, some are significantly thicker than others. Will it print this way, or is it just some sort of artifact?

Thanks

Dan

Hi Eric, the PDF version does not print out to the right dimensions. I think your better off downloading the word doc that I put up for now.
but since it's at Yousendit for the time being, people can get the actual file for a few days. Here is the link.
http://download.yousendit.com/617B30045B3960B2

I found some PDF notebook pages linked from this forum, and the plain notebook rule is OK, but not quite what I want. So I'm looking at making my own, using a Perl program to generate from options, only with more flexibility than I found. E.g. put whatever kind of grid/graph in any size subpage area. Another idea is to generate as SVG, and print using Inkskape or then convert to PDF.

I've not done it yet, but if you have any ideas for what the best notebook paper pattern would be, let me know.

--John

I was also wondering about that, also, some of the lines did appear uneven in the excel file. I however believe some of the blotches along most of the lines are some kind of artifact.

Perhaps there are some graph paper generators we can use to make our own paper.

I haven't tried any of these, but I have noticed uneven line printing from other pdf templates downloaded from this site
http://www.diyplanner.com/templates/index

It seems to depend on the printer I use, one looks horrible like it is out of toner, uneven lines, but look fine when printed on other printers.

you can generate your own pdf templates here,
http://incompetech.com/graphpaper/

What I have already is perfect for my purposes. I replicated the line spacing on regular notebook paper, but narrowed the header for two extra lines and increased the margins for more writing space. I think what I produced is superior to all the third party software programs that I used to attempt this. The link I mentioned is available still you might want to try it out and see what you think.

Ignore the PDF version, that is not how it's supposed to look. The closest would be the word document. But as I said earlier, there is a yousendit link that will get you the excel version, which is exactly how I intended it to look.

Thanks for following up Love. I have a Mac, and can't open the Excel version. For some reason, it downloads as a Quicktime file, but then won't open. Maybe I'll try another browser, I'm currently using Firefox.

The first version you posted opened, but there were no lines to be found, just a blank rectangle. Very strange.

Edit: Tried Safari, downloads as a file I still can't open, but sent to my sister who has Windows. Hope that I can scan and print from that.

Dan

This is getting "curiouser and curiouser"! Here is the response from my sis after I emailed her the document from the latest link:

"It would not open without downloading a new packet upgrade. Once I did the download it opened but it was an excell graph format with vertical lines as well as horizontal. Then when I tried to print - it said there was nothing to print...( %^##@!$%)"


Anyone know what might be going on?

Dan

Here try this one:

That's really weird that everyone's having problems printing this out. It might be that I'm using Office 2007. I just posted it again at u send it as a 2003 excel worksheet on yousendit. Here is the link. http://download.yousendit.com/8F91292D1308A6A6