Re: OT: Printing Help

In M$ Word 2003: File > Page Setup > Pages: Bookfold. And then you select the
number of sheets per fascicle. Word works out which pages to print alongside
which, based on the fascicle size you choose. (Word's Print menu also has an
option for manual duplex printing.)

I have heard that Word Perfect has had this feature for a long time. I can't
check whether Open Office has it, because I've not got round to installing it
on my current laptop.

Perhaps a google on bookfold/booklet + "word processor" will turn up more...

--And.

David J. Peterson, On 26/11/2006 09:21:
> I'm printing out a book, and am having quite a bit of trouble in
> getting it right.  Any advice anyone could give me would be
> greatly appreciated.
>
> I want the book to be printed on half pages, so I've set it to
> landscape and have divided each page into two columns (I've
> decided to just put the page numbers in by hand, since the
> program I'm using can't for the life of it treat two columns as
> two pages when it comes to automatic page numbering...).
> I'll be printing these out double-sided, though, and if you do
> that, the first thing that happens is the pages don't fold correctly.
> So if you print out a single page, on one side you'll have...
>
> Side 1: Page 1 | Page 2
> Side 2: Page 3 | Page 4
>
> Page 3 will be on the back of page 2 and page 4 will be on the
> back of page 1.  If you fold this in half and try to read it like a
> book, you get one of two orders, depending on how you fold
> it:
>
> -Pages 2-3-4-1
> -Pages 4-1-2-3
>
> The result is chaos.  Imagine it as a four word story, one on each
> page.  Iff the story was "I saw your dog.", the result would either be
> "saw your dog.  I" or "dog.  I saw your".
>
> I've been trying to fiddle around with the document settings and
> the printer settings, and I can't seem to fix it.
>
> I *could* conceivably do this by getting rid of the two columns
> and printing the whole thing out with one page per 8.5 x 11 sheet,
> but that would be an absurdly-sized book.  Does anyone know
> any way around this, or something I can read that can take me
> through the process (whatever that process is) step by step?  I
> ask here because colangers are creative people, and I'm sure a
> number of you have done this kind of thing before, and may
> have encountered (and solved) my problem.  Thanks for any
> help anyone can give me!
>
> -David
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