LibreOffice has page direction option on brochure printing when CTL is enabled (Tools - Option - Languages - check to CTL). This option should be for Asian layout, too. We Japanese user want to use this option. use case: 1. Yoko writes a tiny book on vertical text, and she wants to print on brochure printing. 2. John who is Japanese comic as known as manga artist. He wants to draw a manga on Draw. Most of Japanese comics are right to left direction (bound on the right-hand side) . ref: https://www.w3.org/TR/2009/NOTE-jlreq-20090604/#fig1_2-en source code is here: https://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/tree/sw/source/core/view/printdata.cxx#n371
Created attachment 127279 [details] brochure option
Takeshi Abe committed a patch related to this issue. It has been pushed to "master": http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=a41587a7410f300b5225dc15ada2972a79b66322 tdf#102074 Allow to choose page direction on printing brochure It will be available in 5.3.0. The patch should be included in the daily builds available at http://dev-builds.libreoffice.org/daily/ in the next 24-48 hours. More information about daily builds can be found at: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Testing_Daily_Builds Affected users are encouraged to test the fix and report feedback.