Re: [users] printing a book
On 08/11/10 13:29, James Knott wrote: > Mike Scott wrote: >> >> If I recall, more generally, books are printed with many pages to a >> large sheet > Yes, those are called "signatures". That also requires a printer > capable of handling large sheets, as well as a bindery to fold & trim > the paper and bind it into a book. If you want to make such a book, > you're better off going to a commercial printer who can take your > document file and turn it into a finished book. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookbinding Ah, yes, thanks for the reminder. I notice the OP has been silent but I think she has the answer she needs - simple brochures OK in Writer, get it done commercially if it's a true "book". -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] printing a book
Mike Scott wrote: If I recall, more generally, books are printed with many pages to a large sheet Yes, those are called "signatures". That also requires a printer capable of handling large sheets, as well as a bindery to fold & trim the paper and bind it into a book. If you want to make such a book, you're better off going to a commercial printer who can take your document file and turn it into a finished book. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bookbinding - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] printing a book
On 07/11/2010 19:20, Tony Carr wrote: On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com< webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: What do you mean by "book format"? Double sided paper with two pages per side that have the pages line up in the proper order so you can staple the middle, fold it over, etc., to make your own book? Personally I do not know of many free software that has a printing option that does this. You are saying that OOWriter> Print> Options> Brochure will only do this for 4 "pages" (a single folded sheet)? Depends what the OP wants. Writer will do a simple brochure format, as others have said. But this is really just a way of fitting two (say) portrait A5's onto a landscape A4 sheet and reordering the pages so that it works when folded (it does work on more than 4 pages!!). If I recall, more generally, books are printed with many pages to a large sheet - in a strange order and half upside down. The large sheet is folded multiple times - which 'magically' puts everything in the right place, right-side up - and the edges cut. (No doubt there's some technical term :-) ) This, it seems, Writer will not do (will Scribus???). If memory serves, the program psnup will do much of this given a postscript file, although IMBW. (OP cc'd as she isn't subscribed. OP - you may miss answers because of that; see http://www.openoffice.org/mail_list.html for more info on the mail lists. Replies to list only please.) -- Mike Scott Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] printing a book
Hi Maria, That may depend on your printer capability, see attached picture, I can choose "booklet" as that's the one my printer support. Regards, Xiaoqi - Original Message - From: "Maria de las Mercedes" To: Sent: Friday, November 05, 2010 5:26 PM Subject: [users] printing a book Hello: I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very essential in my work. Thanks a lot. María de las Mercedes - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
RE: [users] printing a book
It's possible that Fineprint may solve your problem. http://www.fineprint.com/ -Original Message- From: Daniel Lewis [mailto:elderdanle...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, 8 November 2010 6:20 AM To: users@openoffice.org Cc: Maria de las Mercedes Subject: Re: [users] printing a book Maria de las Mercedes wrote: > Hello: > > I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very essential in my work. > Thanks a lot. > > María de las Mercedes > > What you want to use is OpenOffice.org Writer. Specifically, you need to use Master Document. First you need to get the Writer Guide v3.2 from this web page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chap ters. Chapter 13 discusses Master Documents that you can use to do what you want with your document. However, the rest of the Writer Guide has information you will likely need as well. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] printing a book
At 10:26 05/11/2010 +0100, Maria de las Mercedes wrote: I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very essential in my work. Do you mean that you want OpenOffice Writer to print two pages per side and to distribute them unusually - so that you can fold the resulting stack of sheets into a booklet? OpenOffice calls these booklets "brochures", so you could look up "brochure" in the help text. See also http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Printing_a_brochure . o Set up the page format within the document (Format | Page... ) to have the actual size and orientation of the document page, not the size of paper that you will use - as if you were actually using smaller paper, that is. This may be portrait A5 (or perhaps half-Letter if you live in a non-standard country). You may want to use Mirrored page layout and a small Inner margin. When you print, you need to do two things: o Set the printer orientation to landscape and to the actual paper size - possibly A4 (or Letter). Do this either in the printer settings outside OpenOffice, or through the Properties... button in the Print dialogue. o Select the Brochure print option. Do this either at Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print | Pages | Brochure, or on the fly through the Options... button in the print dialogue. If you select brochure printing in Tools | Options..., you can use Print Preview to experiment with the brochure setting to see how it works. If your printer does not do double-sided automatically, you will probably want to use the "Left pages" and "Right pages" options to print all of each side of your stack in one pass. (These options are also at Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print | Pages, or can be reached on the fly through the Options... button in the print dialogue.) I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] printing a book
Maria de las Mercedes wrote: Hello: I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very essential in my work. Thanks a lot. María de las Mercedes What you want to use is OpenOffice.org Writer. Specifically, you need to use Master Document. First you need to get the Writer Guide v3.2 from this web page: http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Chapters. Chapter 13 discusses Master Documents that you can use to do what you want with your document. However, the rest of the Writer Guide has information you will likely need as well. Dan - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
Re: [users] printing a book
On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 1:56 PM, webmas...@krackedpress.com < webmas...@krackedpress.com> wrote: > What do you mean by "book format"? Double sided paper with two > pages per side that have the pages line up in the proper order so you > can staple the middle, fold it over, etc., to make your own book? > > Personally I do not know of many free software that has a printing option > that does this. > > You are saying that OOWriter > Print > Options > Brochure will only do this for 4 "pages" (a single folded sheet)? -- www.godornot.org
Re: [users] printing a book
On 11/05/10 05:26, Maria de las Mercedes wrote: > Hello: > > I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print > a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very > essential in my work. > Thanks a lot. > > María de las Mercedes > What do you mean by "book format"? Double sided paper with two pages per side that have the pages line up in the proper order so you can staple the middle, fold it over, etc., to make your own book? Personally I do not know of many free software that has a printing option that does this. If you wish to create professional looking books from your writings, I would use one of those print-on-demand companies like Lulu.com They are geared to make your text into a book format, printing, binding, etc., and printing only the number you need. Even some of the big name authors have book printed like that, so to make only the needed numbers of copies for the public orders. Such companies are great for the average person as well. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.org
[users] printing a book
Hello: I am a Openoffice user since 2007. I have not been able to find how to print a document in a book format. Could you help me please??? This is very essential in my work. Thanks a lot. María de las Mercedes
RE: [users] printing a book
Thanks folks. > Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2008 13:06:47 +0100 > To: users@openoffice.org > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [users] printing a book > > At 13:08 16/08/2008 +0200, Joe Grech wrote: > >Soon I'll be printing a book for proof reading in Writer v > >2.4.1. Is there a way of printing only the text and leaving out > >pix, diagrams etc? > > Yes. Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print, and > you will find settings where you can choose exactly what you wish > printed. Alternatively, you can reach the same dialogue on the fly > via the Options... button in the Print dialogue. > > I trust this helps. > > Brian Barker > > > - > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us
Re: [users] printing a book
At 13:08 16/08/2008 +0200, Joe Grech wrote: Soon I'll be printing a book for proof reading in Writer v 2.4.1. Is there a way of printing only the text and leaving out pix, diagrams etc? Yes. Go to Tools | Options... | OpenOffice.org Writer | Print, and you will find settings where you can choose exactly what you wish printed. Alternatively, you can reach the same dialogue on the fly via the Options... button in the Print dialogue. I trust this helps. Brian Barker - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [users] printing a book
On 16 Aug 2008 at 13:08, Joe Grech wrote: > > Hi Soon I'll be printing a book for proof reading in Writer v 2.4.1. > Is there a way of printing only the text and leaving out pix, diagrams > etc? Thanks. Try under 'options' on the print dialogue box, at least for 2.4.1/XP. -- Permission for this mail to be processed by any third party in connection with marketing or advertising purposes is hereby explicitly denied. http://www.scottsonline.org.uk lists incoming sites blocked because of spam [EMAIL PROTECTED]Mike Scott, Harlow, Essex, England - To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[users] printing a book
Hi Soon I'll be printing a book for proof reading in Writer v 2.4.1. Is there a way of printing only the text and leaving out pix, diagrams etc? Thanks. _ Invite your mail contacts to join your friends list with Windows Live Spaces. It's easy! http://spaces.live.com/spacesapi.aspx?wx_action=create&wx_url=/friends.aspx&mkt=en-us
