Brian Barker wrote:
At 09:05 10/03/2009 -0700, David Karr wrote:
I prefer to print documents 4 pages per sheet, double-sided. I've
done this for a long time on Windows, and now Ubuntu. After it
prints, I bind the listings with a hard plastic spine that covers
about the left quarter inch of the sheet. When I did this on Windows,
this worked perfectly. On Ubuntu, this works just about as well,
with one minor annoyance. The resulting physical gutter is just
slightly too small, so I have to pull the paper out of the spine an
eighth of an inch or so.
Is there any way to alter how the physical page view is rendered, so
that the resulting physical gutter is a little larger?
I believe I have the same issue when I print from Firefox, so this
problem isn't exclusive to OpenOffice.
If - as you say - this functions similarly for different applications,
you are presumably using the facilities of your printer driver, not
OpenOffice itself, to achieve what you need. In that case, any
adjustment is the domain of your printer driver and not OpenOffice.
It may or may not offer this.
But you can print multiple pages per sheet using OpenOffice's own
facilities, and these allow you to adjust margins:
o Go to File | Page Preview... (or click the Page Preview button).
o Click the "Print options page view" button in the Page Preview
toolbar.
o Set the required distribution (2 rows, 2 columns in your case).
o Increase the Left margin appropriately.
o Possibly increase the Top margin to centre the result vertically on
the page.
o (This bit is important.) Print using the "Print page view" button
in the Page Preview toolbar (not the usual methods).
Unfortunately, "Left" really seems to mean left, so the enlarged
margin will be on the wrong (left) edge on the reverse side of
double-sided printing. I'm not sure you can avoid this, short of
printing sides separately.
This factor doesn't seem like it would cause me too much trouble, as I'm
just trying to add a relatively tiny bit more margin, so I'll just add
the same margin to both left and right (I think about 0.10" will do
it). I tried printing a single test page of my page preview this way,
and it looks like just that will be enough.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected]
For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
