WHAT IS A CIRCLE? -- a small zine about sitting together quarter-sheet and half-sheet zines, 32 pages, saddle-stitched Wilfred Henry. insearchofpeace.press · justice Companion to What Is a Pod? (../what-is-a-pod-print-files/) Two editions, each in its own folder: quarter-sheet-edition/ 4.25 x 5.5 in, 8.3pt body. 4 letter sheets per copy, cut in half and nested. half-sheet-edition/ 5.5 x 8.5 in, 12pt body, set larger for easier reading. 8 letter sheets per copy. Each folder has these print files: _reader.pdf single pages in reading order, in colour. For screen and proofing. _spreads.png every spread on one sheet, for a quick look. laser/_laser.pdf imposed in colour, for a colour laser, riso grain faked in. Page 24 (Hidden Water) prints the four circle colours: Riso Green, Blue, Orange, Purple. riso/_riso-sunflower.pdf imposed master for the Sunflower drum. riso/_riso-teal.pdf imposed master for the Teal drum (all the type, the line art, the press mark). Inks: Teal + Sunflower. On the riso, page 24's four circles print in those two. PRINTING, quarter-sheet Letter paper, portrait, duplex, flip on the LONG edge, 100% / actual size. Each sheet holds four pages a side and makes two folded half-sheets once it's cut. Check sheet 1: the cover is top right on the front, and page 2 sits right behind it, same way up. Cut each sheet across the middle, at 5.5 in. Stack outside to middle: sheet 1 top, sheet 1 bottom, sheet 2 top, sheet 2 bottom, on to sheet 4 bottom. Fold on the 4.25 in line, staple twice on the fold. The inner pages push out a little at the open edge; trim a hair off if it bothers you. PRINTING, half-sheet Letter paper, landscape, duplex, flip on the SHORT edge, 100% / actual size. Each sheet is one folded half-sheet. Check sheet 1: back cover + cover on one side, pages 2 and 31 on the other, same way up. Stack the eight sheets in order (sheet 1 outside), fold once, staple twice on the fold. RISO Run Sunflower first, then Teal on the same sheets. Teal carries the small type, so it goes last. Masters are grayscale: black = full ink, grey = a tint for the riso to screen. Make masters in photo / grain mode, not text mode, or the tints drop out. Let side 1 set a few hours before side 2. Masters run in order: sheet 1 side 1, sheet 1 side 2, sheet 2 side 1, and so on. Quarter-sheet: 8 masters per drum. Half-sheet: 16 per drum. Nothing prints within 0.25 in of the sheet edge. THE STAMP AND COLOPHON The press stamp (the circle, INSEARCHOFPEACE.PRESS, "A project of the In Search of Peace Fund") is on the back cover above the colophon, in Teal. Every copy's stamp says PRESSED NO. OF PRINTED BY ____________ (sign it) Laser copies, one run at a time: press.py makes the numbered copies, each stamp a little different. python3 press/builder/press.py what-is-a-circle --copies 1-20 --of 50 (quarter-sheet) python3 press/builder/press.py what-is-a-circle-halfsheet --copies 1-20 --of 50 (half-sheet) It writes /press-run/__no1-20-of-50.pdf and logs the run in /PRESSINGS.txt. The reader and laser/ files carry the free stamp (FROM THE FREE PDF), for downloads; press-run/ keeps the unstamped laser file press.py works from. Riso copies are stamped by hand; the masters leave the room. Colophon: title · Wilfred Henry; "First pressing." on the riso masters only (cut from the laser files, 6 Nov 2026); the inks, the type, and insearchofpeace.press · In Search of Peace Fund · PO Box 22, Schuyler VA 22969. REBUILDING The source is in source/ here, and in the press project at zines/circle-pod/. One build makes this zine and What Is a Pod?. cd source python3 build.py circle both editions, dated today python3 build.py circle quarter --proof one edition, stop after the reader and spreads It reports how full each page is and flags any page that overflows. Needs: python3, playwright (chromium), pypdf, numpy, scipy, pillow, fonttools, poppler (pdftoppm), img2pdf. Fonts in source/fonts/: Courier Prime, Bebas Neue, Architects Daughter (npm @fontsource, OFL), and FreeMono Bold (GNU FreeFont) for the Diné letters Courier Prime doesn't have. stamp.py (the same copy as press/builder/stamp.py) inks the stamp; pages.py leaves its room. EDITING The text and drawings live in pages.py, one function per page. Page order is ORDER at the top. Every "see page" in the text comes from ORDER, so moving a page never breaks one. Keep the count a multiple of four. The half-sheet edition is the same pages, scaled; its type sizes are in HALF_CSS in build.py. FOLDERS Laser files are in laser/, riso masters in riso/, one pair of folders per edition. Each file is the whole zine, cover and insides, in folding order. The reader PDF stays at the top of each edition folder. A full rebuild puts each edition's files in its folder itself (laser/, riso/, press-run/), stamped.