Open Office

[Old Bruce]

3 hours ago, Jon Coffin said:

 

Well, in Open Office my pages were laid out vertically, single file, and I was able to select 2 sided on my laser printer and it worked great. However, Aff Pub wouldn't offer 2 sided in it's print window (have seen it in beta in a video) and I tried printing, say, 1-6 with 2 sided selected in my printer's print window, and they came out 6 sheets one sided. In my pages vane under Masters vane on the left, Page 1 is singularly on the right and pages 2 and 3 are side by side thence and so on. Is it because I need to have 1 and 2 side by side? If so, is there an easy fix or will I get the joy of fixing everything all colorful expletive over again? I'm a good aim when it comes to shooting myself in the foot {:^). All I see under print is single, flip long, and flip short....   not a clue what it means. Can anybody shed any light?

Aside "I'm a good aim when it comes to shooting myself in the foot" I follow:  'Ready, Fire, Aim!'

I don't know if this will solve the problem you have but here is a Publisher Document and a PDF and a screenshot to demonstrate how to use a Facing Pages Publisher Document to produce a single page PDF. I am unfamiliar with the printer you have. You would need to print the Odd pages then flip and print the Even pages on the back. Unless you have a true two sided printer. Printing from the PDF may fix your problem.

example.zip

[Jon Coffin]

Hi Bruce! Yay, it worked, I get it now. I have 2 nice Brother laser printers, a 2 sided B & W workhorse that cranks out ... and a 2 sided color Brother laser for covers. I haven't printed yet but I'm sure it's all good. I absolutely love their printers, never jammed once, thousands of pages of nice 28# paper and 110# card stock, with all kinds of brain power inside. The color one has a long hinged scan cover that lets me scan paintings like the fish house on the cover on here somewhere and the castle pic. I can produce 40 or so books a day and bind them with a Fellowes comb binder, they lay flat for easy reading, pretty slick when it all goes right.     Just like you, I like to help people out. I'm an electrician and have fixed up a lot of people with small favors, get 'em on track...    I've asked a lot of questions out of frustration on here but have done some homework and I'm getting there. I'm amazed at the number of tutorials out there, and amazed at the depth of Affinity. I feel like a kid in a candy store. A long time ago I worked at a place that made stenciled stuff and ran 2 Roland plotters with a program called Signmate that cut the mylar. I had to crank to keep up with 40 stencilers and 50 or so designs. You had to zoom way in to look at nodes that might be tangled and cause the stencils to tear when they cleaned 'em, or open up a little for dried paint, change layers around, add and subtract, personalize... loved it but got burnt out after a few years. Went back to wiring... Then had an idea for books. Here I am, virally hunkered down. What do you do for excitement?? Well, thanks again!