On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 12:24:19PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> 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.
You might look at 'psbook' as a program to follow generating
Postscript output from OpenOffice.
Reagrds,
Dean
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