Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:53:34 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> * On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: >> >>> What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say "letter" >>> sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x8.5 pages. >>> >>> Can someone point me to instructions or a page setting for this? I >>> cannot find it. It seems reasonable to me to assume that OOo would >>> be able to do this. > > I think psbook (package psutils) is also worth a look. It will shrink, > reorder and combine the pages from a postscript document to make it > suitable for booklet printing. If you print the new PS file with > duplexing you will end up with a stack of paper that can be folded or > cut in the middle to get a booklet with correct ordering of the pages. > This should work with any wordprocessor (or postscript-to-file > pseudoprinter) that can produce reasonably clean postscript output. I > used it a few years ago for my thesis with LaTeX-generated postscript > and it worked flawlessly.
Things like these always work trivial on ISO-A# paper, where half the paper is just the next level with the same page proportions. It's a bit more tiresome with non-ISO US formats, but it should be doable by selecting the right margins and rearanging the resulting ps-file by psbook (part of the psutils package). Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
