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      id="printing-booklet-duplex">

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    <desc>Print folded booklets (like a book or pamphlet) using normal
    A4/Letter-size paper.</desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="candidate"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
    </credit>
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<title>Print folded booklets</title>

<p>You can make folded booklets (like a small book or pamphlet) by printing
 pages of a document in a special order and changing a couple of printing
 options.</p>

<p>These instructions are for printing a booklet from a PDF document.</p>
<p>If you want to print a booklet from a <app>LibreOffice</app> document,
 first export it to a PDF by choosing <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Export
 as PDF…</gui></guiseq>. Your document needs to have a multiple of 4
 number of pages (4, 8, 12, 16,…). You may need to add up to 3 blank
pages.</p>


<p>To print a booklet:</p>
<steps>
 <item>
  <p>Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq>.</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Go to the <gui>General</gui> tab. Under <em>Range</em>, choose
  <gui>Pages</gui>.</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p> Type the numbers of the pages in this order (n is the total number of
  pages, and a multiple of 4):</p>
  <p>n, 1, 2, n-1, n-2, 3, 4, n-3, n-4, 5, 6, n-5, n-6, 7, 8, n-7, n-8, 9, 10,
  n-9, n-10, 11, 12, n-11…</p>
    <p>Examples:</p>
    <list>
     <item><p>4 page booklet: Type <input>4,1,2,3</input></p></item>
     <item><p>8 page booklet: Type <input>8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5</input></p></item>
     <item><p>20 page booklet: Type <input>20,1,2,19,18,3,4,17,16,5,6,15,14,7,8,13,12,9,10,11</input></p></item>
    </list>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Now, go to the <gui>Page Setup</gui> tab.</p>
  <p>Under <em>Layout</em>, in the <gui>Two-sided</gui> option, select
  <gui>Short Edge (Flip)</gui>.</p>
  <p>In the <gui>Pages per side</gui> option, select <gui>2</gui>.</p>
  <p>In the <gui>Page ordering</gui> menu, select <gui>Left to right</gui>.</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Click <gui>Print</gui>.</p>
 </item>
</steps>
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