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à l’allemande

English translation: top binding / calendar format

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French term or phrase:à l’allemande
English translation:top binding / calendar format
Entered by: Charles Davis

14:35 Jan 28, 2016
French to English translations [PRO]
Marketing - Printing & Publishing / Printing formats
French term or phrase: à l’allemande
I know that "à la française" and "à l’italienne" are portrait and lanscape, respectively. I also know that "à l’allemande" means a document with its binding on the top, like a calendar. I just don't know what the term for that is in English...

Can anyone help? Context below:

Le cahier des charges nous permet de cadrer la fabrication des supports de communication. Pour exemple :
- Format (à la française, à l’italienne ou à l’allemande)
- Nombre de couleurs
- Pagination
- Type d’impression (recto/verso ou recto seul)
- Façonnage (plis simples, roulés, …)
- Reliure
- Type de papier
David Swain
United Kingdom
Local time: 12:23
top binding / calendar format
Explanation:
It's sometimes called "top binding". Here's an Epson manual:

"When Portrait is selected as the Orientation setting on the Main menu, the Left or Right binding positions are available. The Top binding position is available when Landscape is selected as the Orientation setting. "
https://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/cx66__/cx66__rf/var...

And you'll find plenty more examples of "top binding" if you look. On the other hand, it's not clear that "top binding " is really a proper printing term. This forum post puts it in doubt, and uses the term "calendar format":

"G—the text block is rotated and it is bound on the left side, the long edge called by CS “the top" or "top edge," which is "what printers call it . . . for what printers call ‘top binding.’”
H—this is often called calendar format, here is the effect, right reading, shown with spiral binding"
https://forums.createspace.com/en/community/message/124340?t...

"Book or calendar format is simply related to long or short side binding, depending on whether the document is in portrait of landscape orientation. The most common format is portrait orientation, long side bound, which is a form of book format. If the short side is bound (still in portrait, ie. the top is bound) then it's calendar format. In landscape orientation, it's the other way around, long side bound means calendar format, short side means book."
http://www.wikihow.com/Print-Double-Sided-Documents-on-Any-P...

So I think either could be used.

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Note added at 56 mins (2016-01-28 15:32:04 GMT)
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Sorry, I was taking the meaning of the French term for granted, since you defined it in the question:

"Format à l’allemande
A l’allemande qualifie le format d’un document dont les pages s’ouvrent de bas en haut (type calendrier)."
http://www.panoply.fr/lexique/format-lallemande
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Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 13:23
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top binding / calendar format


Explanation:
It's sometimes called "top binding". Here's an Epson manual:

"When Portrait is selected as the Orientation setting on the Main menu, the Left or Right binding positions are available. The Top binding position is available when Landscape is selected as the Orientation setting. "
https://files.support.epson.com/htmldocs/cx66__/cx66__rf/var...

And you'll find plenty more examples of "top binding" if you look. On the other hand, it's not clear that "top binding " is really a proper printing term. This forum post puts it in doubt, and uses the term "calendar format":

"G—the text block is rotated and it is bound on the left side, the long edge called by CS “the top" or "top edge," which is "what printers call it . . . for what printers call ‘top binding.’”
H—this is often called calendar format, here is the effect, right reading, shown with spiral binding"
https://forums.createspace.com/en/community/message/124340?t...

"Book or calendar format is simply related to long or short side binding, depending on whether the document is in portrait of landscape orientation. The most common format is portrait orientation, long side bound, which is a form of book format. If the short side is bound (still in portrait, ie. the top is bound) then it's calendar format. In landscape orientation, it's the other way around, long side bound means calendar format, short side means book."
http://www.wikihow.com/Print-Double-Sided-Documents-on-Any-P...

So I think either could be used.

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Note added at 56 mins (2016-01-28 15:32:04 GMT)
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Sorry, I was taking the meaning of the French term for granted, since you defined it in the question:

"Format à l’allemande
A l’allemande qualifie le format d’un document dont les pages s’ouvrent de bas en haut (type calendrier)."
http://www.panoply.fr/lexique/format-lallemande


Charles Davis
Spain
Local time: 13:23
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Asker: Thanks, that's very helpful


Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  philgoddard: It can also be folding rather than binding.
1 hr
  -> Yes, I presume it can. Thanks, Phil!
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