At 14:02 27/03/2009 +0000, Terence Scarborough wrote:
I used to have access to XP Professional which included Publisher
(but now only have XP Home edition and Open Office 2.4) This enabled
me to make up A5 sized brochures with many pages (A4 in two columns)
and the text would flow into the columns and the page numbers
continue numbering sequentially in each column. When it came to
printing, the document automatically printed the pages in the right
order for folding into a booklet and stapling.
I have tried opening Writer to see if it will do this but find the
instructions complex. I have gone into landscape and the typing will
continue through the columns OK, but the page numbering does not
(column 2 still says page one. First column on the second page
should read 3 but reads 2 etc.)
Can publisher be used in the way I want, and is there any _*simple*_
way of finding out how to make it do this please? If this facility
can easily be enabled I might become a convert to Open Office. (My
printer - Brother DCP-135C - only prints one side. )
You ask "Can publisher be used ...", but I guess that was a slip for "Writer".
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 will be portrait A5. 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 - A4. 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 (and check the page numbering).
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.)
(Other people have suggested that - once you understand it - this
method is easier than the Microsoft Office way of doing things.)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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