[Libreoffice-bugs] [Bug 109152] New: Print Layout: support foldable cards ( a 4 page per sheet brochure)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=109152

            Bug ID: 109152
           Summary: Print Layout: support foldable cards (a 4 page per
                    sheet brochure)
           Product: LibreOffice
           Version: 5.4.0.1 rc
          Hardware: All
                OS: All
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: medium
         Component: Printing and PDF export
          Assignee: libreoffice-bugs at lists.freedesktop.org
          Reporter: bwechner at yahoo.com

Description:
LibreOffice supports some seriously cool print layouts already.

Among them are:

n pages per sheet in one of 4 predefined orders.
Including a custom version of n x m cells. Awesome!

Brochure (which is two sides per sheet ordered in such a way that the pinted
stack can be folded into a booklet, usually called Booklet mode not Brochure in
other contexts I think)

The brochure is implemented separately because it has to do some smarts with
print order not easily described under 2 pages per sheet. As an aside it could
equally as well (arguable should) have been implemented as a custom order on 2
pages per sheet but that is a digression.

My desire is to have printable cards. They are done with 4 pages per sheet, but
a specific ordering and with page rotations!

Specifically it would print one sided (I love making these with used paper,
using the plain side) and a layout like this:

http://i772.photobucket.com/albums/yy2/Bernd_Wechner/LibreOffice%20Foldable%20Card%20layout_zps4rgxiivq.png

Which, should the link break is:

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with 1 and 4 rotated 180 degrees.

This is a layout you can fold in half along the horizontal line and then again
on the vertical and you have an elegant card made out of recycled paper if
that's what you used.

I currently have to do this as follows:

1) Print to PDF
2) Use PDFmod to move and rotate the pages
3) Print 4 pages to the sheet in a standard mode:

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The problem with this is twofold:

1) It's a lot more work
2) The page margins on the final print seem enforced (alas, I'm printing with
Evince on Linux, and will look for something else if I can but have failed so
far to find something that can print 4 pages to the sheet with no page
margins!)

And it strikes me as a really neat value add to LibreOffice's print suite,
which is easy enough to code up.

Again, I'd ordinarily think it belongs as a special layout under 4 pages per
sheet, but in the current system it should probably appear as Folded Cards
under Brochure (if you printed more than 4 pages the pattern I'd expect simply
to repeat, so I could make up a pair of cards on 8 pages etc.)

Steps to Reproduce:
1.In LibreWriter click Print on the File Menu
2.Click the Page Layout tab
3. See the described options there

Actual Results:  
Can't do this at all.

Expected Results:
Be able to print folded cards from Writer.


Reproducible: Always

User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:


User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101
Firefox/54.0

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