GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 326211
Support of the mode "brochure" in gtk-print
Last modified: 2012-01-04 14:23:32 UTC
A very useful feature, available in OpenOffice 1.1, is the "brochure" mode. In this mode, the document is printed two pages per sheet with a special order so, when you fold the result, you have a "mini-book". For example, it will print an 16 pages A5 document on A4 sheets so that the first sheet will be : page 16 - page 1 and then : page 2 - page 15 page 14 - page 3 page 4 - page 13 page 12 - page 5 page 6 - page 11 page 10 - page 7 page 8 - page 9 A typical example can be found here : http://ploum.frimouvy.org/textes/joyeux_noel_folder.pdf
As it seems that gnome-print is deprecated in favor of gtk-print, I reassign this bug to Gtk+ Please correct me if I'm wrong
It looks like gtk-print support the brochure mode, at least the GUI looks like it does. Unfortunatly, it doesn't work for me. Is it just me, another bug or is it not implemented ?
I found this feature quite important. Even the Acrobat Reader@Windows is able to print brochure from any PDF, and the feature is scatterly implemented in some printer's drivers in Windows. KPDF was able to brochure using ps filters, however, it is deprecated and the Okular is incapable of doing this. So for now, there is NO program I know in Linux able to print brochure. In my opinion, printer driver really is the right place to implement such a functionality, so could someone PLEASE take a look at this feature?
This feature is in LibreOffice still. To see how it works, click File>Print. Switch to the Page Layout tab and select Brochure. Otherwise, it's much more complicated for the end user. Run yelp ghelp:evince?print-booklet (requires Evince 3+) to see how confusing it is to do this in other apps.