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id="printing-booklet-singlesided">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="printing-booklet"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.4.0" date="2012-02-19" status="candidate"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.13.92" date="2014-09-22" status="review"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-29" status="candidate"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
<email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="author editor">
<name>Petr Kovar</name>
<email>pknbe@volny.cz</email>
</credit>
<include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
<desc>Print a booklet from a PDF using a single-sided printer.</desc>
</info>
<title>Print a booklet on a single-sided printer</title>
<note>
<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>
</note>
<p>To print:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Open the print dialog. This can normally be done through
<gui style="menuitem">Print</gui> in the menu or using the
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>P</key></keyseq> keyboard shortcut.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click the <gui>Properties…</gui> button </p>
<p>In the <gui>Orientation</gui> drop-down list, make sure that
<gui>Landscape</gui> is selected.</p>
<p>Click <gui>OK</gui> to go back to the print dialog.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Under <gui>Range and Copies</gui>, choose <gui>Pages</gui>.</p>
<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>…until you have typed all of the pages.</p>
<note>
<p>Examples:</p>
<p>4 page booklet: Type <input>4,1,2,3</input></p>
<p>8 page booklet: Type <input>8,1,2,7,6,3,4,5</input></p>
<p>12 page booklet: Type <input>12,1,2,11,10,3,4,9,8,5,6,7</input></p>
<p>16 page booklet: Type <input>16,1,2,15,14,3,4,13,12,5,6,11,10,7,8,9</input></p>
<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>
</note>
</item>
<item>
<p>Choose the <gui>Page Layout</gui> tab.</p>
<p>Under <gui>Layout</gui>, select <gui>Brochure</gui>.</p>
<p>Under <gui>Page Sides</gui>, in the <gui>Include</gui> drop-down list,
select <gui>Front sides / right pages</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click <gui>Print</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>When all the pages have printed, flip the pages over and place them
back in the printer.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Open the print dialog. This can normally be done through
<gui style="menuitem">Print</gui> in the menu or using the
<keyseq><key>Ctrl</key><key>P</key></keyseq> keyboard shortcut.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Choose the <gui>Page Layout</gui> tab.</p>
<p>Under <gui>Page Sides</gui>, in the <gui>Include</gui> drop-down list,
select <gui>Back sides / left pages</gui>.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Click <gui>Print</gui>.</p>
</item>
</steps>
</page>
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