Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Printint to PocketMod layout

On 04/23/2012 10:51 AM, BKh wrote:
>   >  What is a "PocketMod booklet" ?
>   >  What are the page dimensions?
>
> If you click on this link (from the original post) the photo will show
> the layout far better than I could possibly explain.
>
> http://www.pocketmod.com/howto/
>
> In case you don't have access to the internet, the lay out is this:
> Eight pages, on one side of the sheet. The sheet is in landscape, but
> the pages are portrait. Nothing is on the back of the sheet. Going
> clockwise from the top left page the order is: 5, 6, B, F, (then upside
> down) 1, 2, 3, 4. F is the front cover and B is the back cover.
>
> I think it is best just to look at the link to see the photo. When the
> book is folded the reverse side of the sheet is completely inside the book.
>
> You may also want to watch this video on how to fold:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAb31rIeGZo
>
>   >  Are you asking about a package/extension that will print out multiple
>   >  sheets that have two "pages" on each side of a duplexed sheet of paper,
>   >  and printing the document where the pages will have the proper placement
>   >  if you printed out the document, staples it, and fold it over?
>
> Well, yes I would like an extension, but not two per side as you
> explain. I would like the layout shown in the link.
>
>   >Did you try with Menu/File/Print/Print layout [tab] - brochure?.
> Yes, but it will not give the order and orientation in the PocketMod style.

I never have seen something like this, except a card you make by folding 
the paper in half and half again.  Never seen an 8 face folded "booklet" 
before.  The up-side-down 4 sections is the hard part.  I do not think 
an extension would be easy to create to do this formatting and text 
rotation.

Can you do it with Legal size paper?  That would give you a larger "face 
page" for each section.

[easiest solution - I can think of]
Now that I see the image from the URL,  I would use a 3 stage printing.  
That is the easiest way I can think of.

   1]
   I would take a landscape page and make the bottom margin at the 5.75
   inch mark and then make the top, and side margin  1/4 inch.  Then I
   would use the Format>Page>Columns option to create 4 columns and
   make the space between columns 1/2 inch [double the margin width if
   you cannot do 1/4 inch margins].

   2]
   Then I would print out the document one "page" at a time.  Print the
   top 1-4 sections.

   3]
   Then I would realign the paper in the printer so sections 5-6, B, F
   would print out.

That may be the easiest was to do this.  There are other ways, like 
frames with text rotated, etc., but if all you need is a printer run and 
not a PDF copy of the sheet, then this would be the best.

[creating a PDF form that printout]

   If you needed a PDF sheet, then you would take the printed sheet and
   scan it in as an image and insert that image into a page with Draw
   or Writer, then export it to PDF.







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