At 15:27 27/09/2017 +1000, Paul Ranger wrote:
I need to type set and print 2 x A5 pages in a document file onto a
single sheet of A4 paper.
The contents of the pamphlet will consist of 2 additional A5 sized
pages of text - both left justified to be printed on the blank side
after initial back cover /front cover printing.
So you actually want to print *four* A5 pages on two-sided A4.
I cannot find how to perform this set up from the open document work space.
Try a "brochure".
I cannot work out how to set the page orientation to landscape
rather than default portrait (upright) orientation. Further, I
cannot find how to set the document size to A5.
I'm surprised you cannot find this in either the built-in help text
or the documentation.
You may be suffering from Microsoftitis. Microsoft Office products -
such as Word - treat page size and orientation as printer properties.
OpenOffice treats them instead as aspects of page formatting (which I
happen to think is more sensible). So go to Format | Page... | Page
and set the page size and orientation there. But you don't want your
*page* orientation to be landscape, in fact: those A5 pages are in
portrait orientation. It's the A4 *paper* that needs to be in
landscape orientation..
OpenOffice will arrange what you need automatically:
o Set your document to have A5 pages in portrait orientation.
o Create the document normally - all four pages *sequentially*.
o Go to File | Printer Settings... | Properties... and set your
printer to use A4 paper in landscape orientation.
o Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice Writer | Print | Pages and
tick Brochure. (Alternatively you can select this in the print
dialogue at File | Print... | Options... | Page Layout | Layout | Brochure.)
o Print the document double-sided on A4 paper (automatically or
manually as necessary).
OpenOffice will print pages 4 and 1 on one side of the paper and 2
and 3 on the other.
In fact, the brochure facility is even cleverer: if your document
contains more than four pages, they will be distributed across more
than one sheet of paper such that you can fold the resulting stack to
create a brochure containing an arbitrary number of pages.
I am running AOO 4.1.3 on iMac.
Then you'll have to translate Tools | Options... to OpenOffice |
Preferences, of course.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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