KDP switches my right and left pages in book publishing - help me fix it please

[rjn1956]

I am using writer to publish a paperback book. I love the options, but I am pretty green in how to use it. I thought I had the page style figured out. It looks great as a pdf but when I get to the kdp preview it switches my right and left pages and my even and odd pages, thus making my margins totally off. Please help!

Thanks

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[rjn1956]

I figured it out.

So what my problem was in Writer I didn’t click mirrored pages, but left and right. Then, on the export to PDF, I didn’t include blank pages. WOOHOO. It worked after I made those changes.

[EarnestAl]

IDK what KDP is

Left and right pages work fine, I have used them and published with them but remember Western publishing conventions are baked into LibreOffice.

• Left pages are always even numbered and right pages are always odd numbered
• Even numbered pages are on the left if the document is seen as a book.

To help avoid errors as you encountered you can click Book view which will show the layout

Also see Page numbering - Wikipedia