[ale] Need help with DTP, printing Brochure mode, 2 pages per side, 4 pages per sheet

[Jim Kinney]

OK. I dug up an 18 page M$ word file from somewhere and printed as a
two-sided brochure. Started with standard portrait format letter paper
for the document. file->print->properties and set orientation to
Landscape, duplex to Short Edge (flip). Hit OK then on Options set
Pages area to left pages, right pages, and brochure all checked. OK,
OK (twice) and it printed out nicely. The only formatting oddball is
the new "top" is too close to the edge so there will need to be some
margin tweaking or better, adjust the original layout to be a similar
height/width ratio as the final size.

Once this was done, I reset all the printer setting back to normal so
I wouldn't scream next time I printed something and washed my hands
and boiled my eyes from the M$word contact!

On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 3:42 PM, Jim Kinney <jim.kinney at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/OOo3_User_Guides/Getting_Started/Printing_from_Writer#Printing_a_brochure
>
> not tried this yet with larger than a 4 pager...But it _did_ work once
> I changed the duplex to "short side flip" to accommodate the landscape
> mode. Also kept the page format to portrait in OO and printer set to
> landscape. The output can be then print to pdf.
>
> On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Bruce <callmebruce2002 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> I'm working on a cookbook in OpenOffice. I have a 123 page document. I would like to send it to a commercial printer as a PDF. I exported as PDF, and all is well and good (ish), except it is 8.5x11, one page per sheet.
>>
>> OpenOffice Writer has a Brochure mode that might work, except it does not keep it's formatting when exporting as PDF. So I thought I would try psbook, psnup, ps2pdf utilities.
>>
>> Here is what I did (snagged from http://dsl.org/cookbook/cookbook_25.html):
>>
>> To make a booklet from the file `newsletter.ps':
>> Rearrange the pages into a signature:
>> $ psbook newsletter.ps newsletter.signature.ps [RET]
>>
>> Put the pages two to a page in landscape orientation, at 70 percent of their original size (typed all on one line):
>> $ psnup -l -pletter -2 -s.7 newsletter.signature.ps >
>> newsletter.2up.ps [RET]
>>
>> Output the odd pages:
>> $ pstops "2:0(1in,0in)" newsletter.2up.ps > odd.ps [RET]
>>
>> Output the even pages:
>> $ pstops "2:-1(1in,0in)" newsletter.2up.ps > even.ps [RET]
>>
>>
>> I then did:
>> ps2pdf odd.ps odd.pdf
>> ps2pdf even.ps even.pdf
>>
>> Then printed the odd pages. Put the sheets back in the printer starting with the first page, and printed the even pages. When I put the pages together, I can not figure out how to get them in order!
>>
>> If I start with page 1, and go through odd, it looks fine for pages 1, 3, 5, all the way through 61. But the even sheets seem exactly opposite of what I want. Should I have flipped the pages after printing odds, reversed the sort (starting from the last page instead of the first) and printed even? Is the mirror mode I should look at?
>>
>> Anyone printing brochure mode in PDF that can help me out? (I think I'll try a simple 6 page document to see if I cna figure out sort order next - doing it wiht a 123 page booklet is kinda goofy)
>>
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