Printing a Brochure

Apache OpenOffice 4.1 Draw Guide

Chapter 1: Introducing Draw

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• Introduction
• The Draw Workplace
• Rulers
• Status Bar
• Toolbars and the Sidebar
  • Standard Toolbar
  • Drawing Tools
  • Line and Filling Tools
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  • Color Bar
    • Choosing a color palette
  • Options Toolbar
• Drawing Grid and Guides
• Floating and Moving Toolbars
  • Customizing Toolbars
• Quick Printing
• Controlling Printing
  • Selecting General Printing Options
  • Printing Multiple Pages on a Single Sheet of Paper
  • Selecting Pages to Print
  • Printing a Brochure
  • Printing in Black and White (on a Color Printer)
• Exporting to PDF
  • Quick Export to PDF
  • Controlling PDF Content and Quality
• Exporting to Other Formats
• Exporting Draw Documents as Web Pages
• E-mailing Documents

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Printing a Brochure

In Writer, Impress, and Draw, you can print a document with two pages on each side of a sheet of paper, arranged so that when the printed pages are folded in half, the pages are in the correct order to form a booklet or brochure.

Plan your document so that it looks good when printed at half-size; choose appropriate margins, font sizes, and so on. You may need to experiment.

To print a brochure on a single-sided printer:

1. Choose File → Print.
2. In the Print dialog, click  Properties .
3. Check that the printer is set to the same orientation (portrait or landscape) as specified in the page setup for your document. Usually, the orientation does not matter, but it does for brochures. Click  OK  to return to the Print dialog.
4. Select the Page layout tab in the Print dialog.
5. Select the Brochure option.
6. In the Page sides section, select Back sides / left pages option from the Include drop-down list.
7. Click the  Print  button.
8. Remove the printed pages from the printer, turn them over, and reinsert them into the printer in the correct orientation to print on the blank side. You may need to experiment a bit to find the correct arrangement for your printer.
9. On the Print dialog, in the Page sides section, select Front sides / right pages option from the Include drop-down box.
10. Click the  Print  button.

If your printer can print double-sided automatically, choose All pages.