On Sunday 22 May 2005 00:24, Chris Aitken wrote: > Doug Thompson wrote: > > <snip> > > > I haven't tried the following, but if I understand the question, it > > might be possible to achieve the desired result using a page style > > with two columns in landscape mode. The shortcoming of this approach > > is that you will have to manually control the content of the first and > > last book pages because of the order in which they will appear, i.e.: > > > > +----------+----------+ +----------+----------+ > > > > | ! | | ! | > > | ! | | ! | > > | ! | | ! | > > | Page 4 ! Page 1 | | Page 2 ! Page 3 | > > | ! | | ! | > > | ! | | ! | > > > > +----------+----------+ +----------+----------+ > > Side 1 of paper Side 2 > > > > This is a "Beat to fit, paint to match" solution, but it should allow > > you to use OOo successfully. Of course, once you exceed a page count > > of 4 book pages, you're on your own. > > I do this all the time ( I call it a pamphlet, the W98 driver for epson > c86 calls it "Multi-page (2 per page)". However, I can't do it in linux > -- I have to choose Windows 98 instead of linux) at the grub selector.
The KDE print system has had this feature for a while. Granted, you can't use it from OOo directly, but exporting to PDF and then loading in KPDF (which is a really nice app since 3.4) makes this pretty easy. -- Jim --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
