![]() With Word I was able to lay out pages exactly the way I wanted them, precisely, and know exactly what I was going to get. ![]() My biggest concern is that for the choir booklets I'm creating, it can make a really big difference whether a certain line is on the same page as the large graphic of music for singing or the page before it or after it. I still have my old PC that has a now-elderly version of Word on it, and if I create this document in Word, it automatically creates pages for me that are the final-output size (i.e., half of a piece of paper). I see that the printer software for my printer also seems to be able to do this, and I may yet experiment with it.īut what's driving me crazy, here, is that these are work-arounds to a problem that Microsoft solved quite well in Word many years ago. This approach is similar to another one available to me: software for the Mac (presumably the PC as well) that will convert the print output of a word processor into a booklet as you print it, I think. Many thanks for the helpful reply! I can see that this probably would work. When I use Pages (Apple word processor), "File>Print" gets me the same dialog I get from OpenOffice, but "File>Page Setup", which I'd guess is the same function as OpenOffice's "File>Printer Settings" does give me an option for landscape or portrait.Ĭan anyone help me? So far, it looks like I just can't use OpenOffice for this task at all. There are a million options, but portrait and landscape are not among them. "File>Print" on the other hand gets me a dialog that's from my printer software, but that's not where you set landscape or portrait. ![]() I'm guessing that's where I'd have told my printer to use landscape. Specifically, "File>Printer Settings" gets me what would seem to be the right dialog, but to the right of the printer (Canon iP4500 Series) is a button ("Options") that's grayed-out. I can't find a dialog to tell my printer to lay the two "portrait" pages out on a landscape sheet. It's REALLY helpful to be able to lay this out myself.Ģ) But the BIG problem is that I can't seem to get my printer to use landscape for this, so every attempt I've made with OpenOffice has been two "portrait" pages on a "portrait" sheet. Is there any other way to do this? The main thing I make booklets for is my church choir, and a large part of many of the pages is a graphic of music for them to sing. I'm having 2 problems so far with OpenOffice:ġ) I gather that what I'm supposed to do in OpenOffice is to create pages that are 8.5x11" (for American letter-size paper) and then trust OpenOffice to convert those into half-size sheets for me. When I used to use Word on a PC, and told it I wanted to make a brochure, it created pages that were the actual size they'd be in the ultimate printout, so I could lay out images, for example, exactly the way I wanted on the (half-size) page. Go back to page setup and on margins set your top, bottom, left and right to the width you want, then put all your info in.I'm brand-new to OpenOffice just switched to the Mac a year ago and am trying not to use Microsoft software if I can avoid it. Then on format go to columns, again set to three. Similar thing, go to file, page setup, set orientation to landscape. Just had a look, you can do it on Microsoft works word processor. My friend last night asked me where I had them done which was a nice compliment, reminds me actually, I should really print some more out. Then print it (it drove me mad the first few times, for some reason I just couldn't print it right, I kept turning the paper upside down?! lol), I print loads of my first pages first then flip my paper and print the second page. My second page is just all for my aftercare and other info (which is the inside). Start with the price list though so the info on the third column doesn't keep moving lol. Then put all my info in, On the third column on the first page I put my name, business, contact details etc and in the first two columns I put my price list. On the page layout tab I first set my orientation to landscape, then on columns I set to three (so I can make a tri-fold), on margins I go down to narrow, so I can fit more writing in. I also make my own using Microsoft Office Word, it's quite simple to do, if you have it.
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