At 15:18 20/06/2008 +0100, Gordon Noname wrote:
I am desperately trying to move away from MS Word, but until I can
replicate this behaviour, then I won't!
In Word 2007, when I go to print, I can choose the option of
printing 2 pages on one page. I use this a lot as I do not have a
duplex printer, so when printing A5 booklets, I can choose which
pages (in A5 portrait size) to print on each page (A4) in order to
produce the booklet. (I re-process each page through the printer to
obtain the double-sided print.
Using the same printer, in Write Beta 3, I can't do the same thing.
I've tried all the settings I can think of and yes it does print two
pages on one side, but not in full A5 size - it squashes them up to one side.
One of the main reasons I do this is because using an A5 page set
up, firstly the pages are just typed in order, and then the order of
printing is decided at print time, and secondly, it makes the
insertion of page numbers easy and automatic.
Does anyone have ANY sort of solution to this?
There is a very easy solution in OpenOffice Writer: your only problem
is probably seeing how to do it - in a different way from how you
would in Word. One trick is knowing that Writer calls these booklets
"brochures"!
o Set up the page format within the document (Format | Page... ) to
have A5 size and portrait orientation. You may want to use Mirrored
page layout and a small Inner margin. (Note that this setting is the
document page size, not the actual paper size.)
o When you print, you need to do two things:
o Set the printer orientation to landscape and to the actual paper
size - A4. Do this either in the printer settings outside Writer, 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.
This technique will not just print two pages per sheet but will also
distribute the pages so that, if you print double-sided, you can just
fold the stack of A4 sheets into an A5 brochure. Since your printer
apparently 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.)
This is all true for my 2.4.0; I'm guessing that your version 3 still
behaves similarly.
I trust this helps.
Brian Barker
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