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      type="topic" style="task"
      id="printing-booklet-singlesided">

  <info>
    <link type="guide" xref="printing-booklet"/>

    <desc></desc>

    <revision pkgversion="3.2" date="2011-09-26" status="candidate"/>

    <credit type="author">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
    </credit>
    <include href="legal.xml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude"/>
  </info>

<title>Print a booklet on a single-sided printer</title>

<note>
  <p>These instructions are for printing a booklet from a PDF document.  If you
 want to print a booklet from a <app>LibreOffice</app> document, first export it
 to a PDF. Make sure the document has a multiple of 4 pages.  You may need to
 add up to 3 blank pages.</p>
</note>


<p>To print:</p>
 <steps>
 <item>
  <p>Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq>.</p>
 </item>
 <item>
  <p>Choose the <gui>General</gui> tab.</p>
  <p>Under <em>Range</em>, choose <gui>Pages</gui>.</p>
  </item>
   <item>
     <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 Setup</gui> tab.</p>
  <p>Under <em>Layout</em>, in the <gui>Two-side</gui> menu, select
 <gui>One Sided</gui>.</p>
  <p>In the <gui>Pages per side</gui> menu, select <gui>2</gui>.</p>
  <p>In the <gui>Page ordering</gui> menu, select <gui>Left to right</gui>.</p>
  <p>In the <gui>Only print</gui> menu, select <gui>Odd sheets</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>Click <guiseq><gui>File</gui><gui>Print</gui></guiseq>.</p>
   </item>
   <item>
    <p>Choose the <gui>Page Setup</gui> tab.</p>
     <p>In the <gui>Only print</gui> menu, select <gui>Even sheets</gui>.</p>
   </item>
   <item>
    <p>Click <gui>Print</gui>.</p>
   </item>
  </steps>
</page>
