Normally when using booklet print option, you end up with book, that’s 1/2 paper size, so for standard printer you hold stack of a4 paper in half and end up with a5 book. I think, good addition would be option to add option similar to “pages per sheet” in normal mode, where for example if you choose 2, you get stack of a4 paper, that you cut in half (lets say using guillotine), put one small stack on top of another, fold it in half and end up with a6 booklet. That or more options for home printing books would be nice to see.
Author brought up the topic on Ask.LO: https://ask.libreoffice.org/t/adding-more-options-to-booklet-print-mode/106208 I can't think of a suitable workaround. Let's see what the UX team thinks.
Isn't it the "Pages per sheet" option? Can you provide an example document and/or screenshot?
Pages per sheet is option that is greyed out when I choose booklet mode. Pager per sheet is optimized for keeping the paper same format as printed, just getting more content each sheet.
Some related tickets Bug 55650 - Brochure/booklet printing does not support mixed page orientation Bug 94342 - PRINTING: Printing certain page layouts (brochure/multiple pages-per-sheet) should enable fields for setting page size/orientation Help says "LibreOffice is not designed to handle brochure printing of documents that include landscape page orientations, but it is possible to print such documents." https://help.libreoffice.org/24.2/en-US/text/swriter/guide/print_brochure.html Don't know why we have these restrictions. But for the actual issue, wouldn't it be much easier to export the document as PDF and use a tool that is better suited for layouting?
I wonder how this is related to bug 109152.
(In reply to zuchtoja1 from comment #0) > Normally when using booklet print option, you end up with book, that’s 1/2 > paper size, so for standard printer you hold stack of a4 paper in half and > end up with a5 book. > > I think, good addition would be option to add option similar to “pages per > sheet” in normal mode, where for example if you choose 2, you get stack of > a4 paper, that you cut in half (lets say using guillotine), put one small > stack on top of another, fold it in half and end up with a6 booklet. > > That or more options for home printing books would be nice to see. If your printer is able to handle A5 paper, then getting an A6 brochure works the same as for an A5 brochure: Write your document in A6, print as brochure; paper size is A5 landscape. Depending on the printer you might need to go to "Properties" in the Printer section of the print dialog and make the needed settings directly at your printer, especially switching on duplex printing. The preview in the printer dialog considers those settings and shows you whether all is correct. Look at the dimension lines in the preview in the print dialog. Some printers are not able to do duplex printing with A5 paper. In that case the printer user guide should tell you what to do. If you want something else, please try to describe the desired workflow in step-by-step way.
To Regina: What I initially had in mind was to print on a4 paper, then cut it into a5 after printing, then put one stack on top of another, then fold it as a booklet. However first cutting a4 paper into a5 and then printing booklet sounds like logical solution, I didn't think about. To Heiko: I will try to research tools for layouting, as they seem.to be what I need. Tho for now I only seen one from Adobe being used.
Two printing / layout concepts N-Up and Imposition: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N-up https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imposition We're talking N-up here, but LO performing Imposition in its print dialog and corresponding extension to ODF would be awsome.