Your page size (one quarter of US Letter, A6 equivalent) is to my mind too small for nice margins _and_ legible type. Your friendly local printer will probably cut the paper for you just to make you go away and leave him in peace! Before getting a packet of paper cut, check using some handcut sheets that your computer printer will feed the half size sheet, and if a duplexer is fitted, that the duplexer will handle the half size sheet. If you were to get a packet of US Letter cut in half, then you could certainly use OO (brochure function) to print your book, or how I suggested above using PDF files, modified for the size. ![]() There are also some commercial utilities that will impose multiple pages from a pdf file to a single sheet. I think newer versions of Scribus may do multiple page imposition, but I've never used it so am not certain. Some, but not all pdf readers have this Print to Booklet option. Number of pages here depends on paper thickness - for thicker you might need to use 1-24, 25-48,etc or 1-16,17-32 etc. Then, using Adobe Reader I print using AR's "Print to Booklet" option, printing pages 1-32, 33-64, 65-96 etc. I compose the book on OO on an A5 page size (half US Letter Equivalent) and print it to an A5 size page (need to tweak Export to PDF settings). ![]() I use a duplex printer (prints both sides) set for A4, flip long edge (Us Letter, flip long edge). ![]() It can arrange them in the correct order I never use that function. OpenOffice will only, as far as I know, handle printing 4 sheets to a sheet, i.e. What you are looking for is software that does "imposition", and you should search on that term for information.
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