Marc, this is the sort of thing that is controlled by Page Styles, and Styles all reside inside of Templates. My recommendation would be to create a Template for your brochure. Then set up the Page Style inside the Template to have the kind of margin you want, save the Template with that setting, and then use the Template each time you want to create another one.
I know that can sound a bit complicated, but I have a number of tutorials on my site at http://www.ahuka.com that address all of these issue. I even did a sample brochure there, though mine was a tri-fold, which by the sound of it is not what you are looking for, but it may give you ideas. Regards, On Fri, Sep 19, 2014 at 3:17 PM, Marc Paré <[email protected]> wrote: > Just a question re: printing a document in "brochure layout" found in the > "Print" menu (tab-> "Page Layout"). > > I am just trying to make the routine of publishing music concert programs > as easy for new office staff as possible (I am director for an early music > group). One way to print the concert programs in booklet format is to have > the office staff type up the concert program in Writer and at the point of > printing, choose the "brochure layout" option in the Printer window tab > "Page Layout". This method works perfectly and allows for any new person to > the music office to just step in and print concert programs in very few > steps that require practically no brochure layout knowledge -- extremely > user friendly to use. > > My question is, when the printed brochure comes out, there is a lot of > wasted space at the top and bottom of the brochure pages. Is there a way to > make use of this space? ... For example, have the printed words start > higher up the page and also down the page? > > I know that one could use Draw to make a brochure, but IMO, if the > "brochure layout" option were tweaked enough to take advantage of the free > space at the top/bottom of brochure pages, it would become an even more > useful tool for occasions when brochure printing is called from a Writer > document. > > Is this something that could be suggested as a bug or put on a wishlist? > > Cheers, > > Marc > > > > > -- > Marc Paré > [email protected] > http://www.parEntreprise.com > parEntreprise.com Supports OpenDocument Formats (ODF) > parEntreprise.com Supports http://www.LibreOffice.org > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Kevin B. O'Brien [email protected] http://google.me/+kevinobrien Facebook is Evil. Cancel your account. -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: [email protected] Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
