Brian Barker wrote:
At 11:41 24/01/2009 +0000, Gordon Noname wrote:
Are there some good step-by step instructions on using OO to print a
booklet? I do NOT have a duplex printer!
First, OpenOffice calls booklets "brochures", so you could look up
"brochure" in the help text.
See also
http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Writer_Guide/Printing_a_brochure
.
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 may be portrait A5 (or perhaps half-Letter if you
live in a non-standard country). 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
- possibly A4 (or Letter). 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.
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.)
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
Works fine! Thanks for the instructions....in fact easier than MS Office!
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