1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> 2<page xmlns="http://projectmallard.org/1.0/" type="topic" style="task" id="duplex-npage" xml:lang="bn"> 3 4 <info> 5 <link type="guide" xref="print-booklet#doubleSided"/> 6 7 <desc>Print a booklet with n pages.</desc> 8 <revision pkgversion="1.25" version="0.1" date="2021-03-13" status="final"/> 9 <credit type="author"> 10 <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name> 11 <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email> 12 </credit> 13 <license> 14 <p>Creative Commons Share Alike 3.0</p> 15 </license> 16 17 </info> 18 19<title>n-page booklet</title> 20 <note style="important"> 21 <p> 22 <em>n</em> is a multiple of 4. 23 </p> 24 </note> 25 26 <p> 27 If the number of pages in your PDF document is not a multiple of 4, you should add the appropriate number of blank pages (1,2 or 3) to make it a multiple of 4. 28 To do so, you can: 29 </p> 30 <steps> 31 <item> 32 <p> 33 Create a blank PDF using <app>LibreOffice Writer</app>. 34 </p> 35 </item> 36 <item> 37 <p> 38 Merge the blank pages with your PDF document using <app>PDF-Shuffler</app> placing the blank pages at the end. 39 </p> 40 </item> 41</steps> 42 43 44<steps> 45 <item> 46 <p> 47 Go to <guiseq><gui style="menuitem">File</gui><gui style="menuitem">Print</gui></guiseq> and press the <gui style="button">Print</gui> button. 48 </p> 49 </item> 50 <item> 51 <p> 52 Choose the <gui>General</gui> tab. 53 </p> 54 <p> 55 Under <em>Range</em>, choose <gui>Pages</gui>. 56 </p> 57 <tree> 58 <item> 59 Type the numbers of the pages in this order: 60 <item>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...</item> 61 <item>...until you have typed n-number of pages.</item> 62 </item> 63 </tree> 64 </item> 65 <item> 66 <p> 67 Choose the <gui>Page Setup</gui> tab. 68 </p> 69 <p> 70 Under <em>Layout</em>, in the <gui>Two-sided</gui> menu, select <gui>Short Edge (Flip)</gui>. 71 </p> 72 <p> 73 In the <gui>Pages per side</gui> option, select <gui>2</gui>. 74 </p> 75 <p> 76 In the <gui>Page ordering</gui> menu, select <gui>Left to right</gui>. 77 </p> 78 </item> 79 <item> 80 <p> 81 Click <gui>Print</gui>. 82 </p> 83 </item> 84</steps> 85</page> 86