I am currently running Open Office 2.0.2 on Fedora 5 Linux. I have a large out-of-print book I would like to print and bind myself. What I need to do is print two pages per sheet such that they can be folded and bound together. This requires pages to be printed in an order like:
For the first ten sheets 40, 1, 2, 39, 38, 3, 4, 37, 36, 5, 6, 35, 34, 7, 8, 33, 32, 9, 10, 31, 30, 11, 12, 29, 28, 13, 14, 27, 26, 15, 16, 25, 24, 17, 18, 23, 22, 19, 20, 21 (ie: Page 40 and Page 1 on one side, and page 2 and page 39 on the other side. -Duplex printing) For the second ten sheets 80, 41, 42, 79, 78, 43, 44, 77, 76, 45, 46, 75, 74, 47, 48, 73, 72, 49, 50, 71, 70, 51, 52, 69, 68, 53, 54, 67, 66, 55, 56, 65, 64, 57, 58, 63, 62, 59, 60, 61 ...and so on for the entire book of about 900 pages. (I have a small app that generates the page sequence for printing.) Once printed the groups of ten sheets (signatures) are, folded and sewn together. Then the signatures are sewn together. Finally all of this is bound in a hard cover format. I can do the binding easily enough, but I am wondering of OO can be setup to print, in this page order, while printing two pages per sheet. For reference the following links may be helpful. I found them while researching this myself: Printing via PagePrevew mode. http://www.8daysaweek.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?p=29&sid=5e495eacd025cf261815998225488a94 Binding technique: http://www.diyplanner.com/node/442 I have used "Perfect" style binding (binding individual sheets with glue) for several smaller book, but would like to avoid that technique for volumes of this size. http://www.persistenceunlimited.com/2006/03/fun-and-easy-how-to-guide-to-binding-your-own-paperback-books-at-homefast/ I'd genuinely appreciate any thoughts or suggestions. Thanks much, James. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
