Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: Brochure printing doesn't scale to page

Thanks Marc.

On 11/26/2016 01:14 PM, Marc Paré wrote:
> Hi Gordon,
>
> Le 2016-11-22 à 09:54, Gordon Burgess-Parker a écrit :
> > Hi.
> > Just tried to post a question on the AskLO forum page. I don’t think 
> > I’ll use that again - I need “points” to post a picture (WHY?) and 
> > the link to a picture is totally un-intuitive.
> >
> > Using Version: 5.2.2.2 Build ID: 
> > 8f96e87c890bf8fa77463cd4b640a2312823f3ad on MAC OS Sierra, with Epson 
> > WF 2660 printer
> > Two problems here. 1. In Print>Paper Handling the suggested paper 
> > size is US Legal, although every setting I can find is UK and A4. Why 
> > is this?
> > 2. The brochure prints ok, but the text is reduced in size, i.e. 
> > doesn't fit the page as in the attached picture link.
> > How do I get a) the suggested paper size to A4, and b) how to get the 
> > pages to appear full-size in the brochure?
> >
> > https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Vw7ioE7vbrVnJFakV1SHBLUmc/view?usp=sharing 
> > <https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0Vw7ioE7vbrVnJFakV1SHBLUmc/view?usp=sharing> 
> >
> >
> > Thanks
> > Gordon
>
> I am not sure of either of your issues with your printer and page, 
> but, I print in brochure format quite often with my early music group 
> for concert program booklets. Here are the settings I use for US 
> letter size that allows me to use the full width of the pages ... note 
> that I am in Canada, where US Letter is the default paper size. 
> However, you may be able to juggle some of the page settings around to 
> fit an A4 page correctly. The point is that, the settings that I use 
> allow the use of the full size of the brochure page (down to the page 
> footer).
>
> Here are my settings for Format->Page
>
> Format: User
> Width: 13.97cm
> Height: 21.59cm
> Orientation: Portrait
>
> Margins:
> Left: 1.27cm
> Right: 1.27cm
> Top: 1.27cm
> Bottom: 1.27cm
>
> Layout Settings:
> Page layout: Right and Left
> Format: 1,2,3
>
> If you want a footer, then on the Footer tab
>
> Footer: checkmarked
> Same content left/right: checkmarked
> Same content on first page: checkmarked
> Left margin: 0.00cm
> Right margin: 0.00cm
> Spacing: 0.51cm
> Use dynamic spacing: NOT checkmarked
> Height: 0.51 cm
> AutoFit height: checkmarked
>
> Hope this helps a bit.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Marc

I could not get the brochure settings to work on my Ubuntu 16.04 and 
Canon MG 6220 and 5320 inkjet printers.  The printout seems to make the 
printing to look like it is printed out in 4 or 6 point font size 
instead of 14 or 16 point, just like it would look with the print of 2 
or 4 pages per side [ HP Laserjet printing setting - Properties > job 
options > pages per side ]

Since my printers [all of them] have troubles with small margin sizes, I 
tend to use the "Borderless Letter" for my posters and single-page 
fliers. I wish LO could have the "borderless" option. I need to create a 
PDF file and then choose the borderless paper option I need for 8.5x11, 
8.5x14, 11x17, 13x19, inches.  I make posters in all of those sizes, and 
4x6 and 8.5x11 photo paper sizes.

When I get some time, I will try out your settings.  They look good, but 
will need to see what they are in inches and not centimeters.

I have been using LO since the first version of LO when It came out of 
"RC".  I do not know even a tenth of what LO can do.  These lists help 
with the "functions" that I do not know or could not get working on my own.


By-the-by - - Which do you use for the folding style of the brochures?  
Z-fold or what I call "C-fold" where one "flap" is folded inside the 
other one.  I have used both many times.  Those which gets mailed 
without an envelope, get the C-fold. I also make 11x17 tabloid paper 
into newsletters and fold the sheets so they can be mailed without an 
envelope as well.  The is one of the reasons I bought the large format 
printer.  Been printing original copies for newsletters since 1990's +/- 
in letter size paper and originals in tabloid size paper since a few 
years ago.

I currently use 3 Canon inkjet printers - 5320, 5420, 6220.  I use HP 
printers - Officejet 7000 E809a and Laserjet 2300dtn.  Of these 
printers, only the Officejet does not duplex though the Laserjet 
sometimes jams with duplexing while paper feeding next blank sheet.




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