At 11:41 24/01/2009 +0000, Gordon Noname wrote:
Are there some good step-by step instructions on using OO to print a
booklet? I do NOT have a duplex printer!
First, OpenOffice calls 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.
Since 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
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