Open office create booklet document pdf#

When you are designing a booklet, it will be printed smaller than usual. If you select ‘long edge binding’ it will print ht back page upside down. Short edge binding means you want to fold the booklet along the shorter edge of the A4 page. You then need to select the ‘double sided’ box and select ‘short edge binding’ not ‘long edge binding’.

Open office create booklet document pdf#

It will open in a new window, and you can either ‘save’ it as a PDF file (to email to someone or print out later) or you can print it as a booklet to your printer. Your document will automatically be made into a booklet. But instead of pressing print (in the bottom right corner of the window) select the ‘PDF’ button in the bottom left of the window, and click on ‘Create Booklet’ This will install an extra menu item in your printer menu to be able to print booklets.Īfter you’ve done this, go into Pages (or Microsoft Word or whatever program you are trying to print from) and select print, like you are going to normally print a document. You can download it directly here or you can try the original webpage here.Īfter you’ve downloaded it, Click on the ‘install- Create Booket PDF Service’ You need to download a little program called ‘Create Booklet’ which will add an extra option to your printing window to allow you to do this.

To do this all the pages need to be re-ordered, for example, page 8 goes near page 1, page 2 near page 7 and so on. Publisher did this automatically. With Pages in OS X there is no such built in option to do this automatically, but there is a great little program called ‘create booklet’ that will do it for you when you go to print the document.īy booklet I mean A4 pages folded in half to make an A5 booklet that you staple in the middle. My friend Dave has just moved across to a mac and he tells me that in Microsoft publisher you can use a booklet template to make a booklet.