Brian Barker wrote:
At 15:18 20/06/2008 +0100, Gordon Noname wrote:
I am desperately trying to move away from MS Word, but until I can
replicate this behaviour, then I won't!
In Word 2007, when I go to print, I can choose the option of printing
2 pages on one page. I use this a lot as I do not have a duplex
printer, so when printing A5 booklets, I can choose which pages (in A5
portrait size) to print on each page (A4) in order to produce the
booklet. (I re-process each page through the printer to obtain the
double-sided print.
Using the same printer, in Write Beta 3, I can't do the same thing.
I've tried all the settings I can think of and yes it does print two
pages on one side, but not in full A5 size - it squashes them up to
one side.
One of the main reasons I do this is because using an A5 page set up,
firstly the pages are just typed in order, and then the order of
printing is decided at print time, and secondly, it makes the
insertion of page numbers easy and automatic.
Does anyone have ANY sort of solution to this?
There is a very easy solution in OpenOffice Writer: your only problem is
probably seeing how to do it - in a different way from how you would in
Word. One trick is knowing that Writer calls these booklets "brochures"!
o Set up the page format within the document (Format | Page... ) to
have A5 size and portrait orientation.
Done that.
You may want to use Mirrored
page layout and a small Inner margin. (Note that this setting is the
document page size, not the actual paper size.)
Haven't looked at that setting yet....
o 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 Writer, or through
the Properties... button in the print dialogue.
That is done.
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.
That is also done.
The print out that actually happens, is that both pages are on the same
A4 page BUT....half actual size, and page no 1 is printed in the top R/H
quarter of the paper, and page 2 is printed in the bottom L/H quarter of
the paper. The page actually comes out portrait, although Landscape is
chosen in the properties. If I change to Portrait in the Printer
Properties, then each page is a quarter size, and printed at the top of
the page, in the middle.
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