{"id":5988,"date":"2020-12-10T10:03:42","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T15:03:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=5988"},"modified":"2020-12-10T10:59:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T15:59:07","slug":"printing-booklets-in-libreoffice-write","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=5988","title":{"rendered":"Printing Booklets using LibreOffice Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Printing documents is usually easy with LibreOffice but it took me a good bit of research and fussing about to get it to print in a booklet form. Once I figured it out it turns out to be quite simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As you would when printing normally, select Print using the toolbar or the <strong>Menu bar ==&gt; File ==&gt; Print<\/strong>. This displays the <strong>Print<\/strong> dialog shown in Figure  1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/LO-Print-Dialog-for-Booklet-Print-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5995\" width=\"855\" height=\"557\"\/><figcaption>Figure 1: LibreOffice Print dialog for printing booklets.<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In the <strong>Page Layout<\/strong> section click on the little <strong>More<\/strong> triangle at the very bottom. Set the <strong>orientation<\/strong> to <strong>Landscape<\/strong> and click on the <strong>Brochure<\/strong> radio button.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the Printer section select the desired printer if it is not already the default and click on the <strong>Properties<\/strong> button to open the <strong>Properties<\/strong> dialog for that printer. Set the <strong>Duplex<\/strong> option to <strong>Short Edge (Flip)<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Click <strong>OK<\/strong> to return to the main <strong>Print<\/strong> dialog, and the <strong>Print<\/strong> button to print the document. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Printing documents is usually easy with LibreOffice but it took me a good bit of research and fussing about to get it to print in a booklet form. Once I figured it out it turns out to be quite simple.&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/?page_id=5988\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":976,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5988","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5988"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6002,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5988\/revisions\/6002"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.linux-databook.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}