When printing a brochure, how can I print a vertical line down the centre fold?

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Can I do this?

Yes. It depends on your layout.

If you use columns so you can insert a separator line just in the middle of the sheet (menu Format | page | columns).

If you use a table it is also possible to check this with borders (additonally you can define some paragraph indents)...

If you use frames...

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EDIT1

Couldn't you print out as "2 pages per sheet" and add Draw a border around each page? In this case LO 6.3.3.2 only added a separator line between the pages (contrary to former editions, AFAIK).

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EDIT2

So print out as a simulated brochure. You print out as 2 pages per sheet and add Draw a border around each page. But instead of the regular order arrange the pages as single ones in brochure order. See screenshot (German GUI, should be self-explaining).

This is an ugly workaround.

In Brochure mode, two document pages are printed side by side on a sheet of paper, which means the right border of first page "touches" the left border of the second page. Since it is not possible to tell the print driver to add a line between the pages, the solution is to add a line in the pages themselves.

If you have a header (or a footer) in your document, it is quite easy. Otherwise add one and adjust the margins so that it does not change the size of the area where your document is formatted.

• in the header, Insert>Shape>Line>Line and draw approximately a vertical line (exact size and orientation do not matter)
• right-click on the line and Position & Size
• in the Rotation tab, make sure angle is 90, 270 or 0° (depending on how you drew the line)
• in the Position & Size tab, set height to be the same as page height, eventually adjust the width (a hair line is enough for the purpose)
• in the same tab, make sure Anchor is set To paragraph (this setting proved to work best in my experiment)

• at bottom Position need to be set as:

  • Horizontal relative to Right paragraph border (again it proved to work better than other choices) and set distance From left to the value of the page right margin minus a small amount (say 0.01-0.02 cm)
  • Vertical is Entire page at Top

Line colour may be changed with right-click on line and Line, Line tab.

The thumbnail in the print dialog now shows the pages with their right border line. But, considering that printers have non overridable mechanical margins, the line at extreme right should not print, being so close to the sheet border.

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