My new book will be read from either the front cover or the back cover, i.e. half of the book will have to be typeset upside down. I can easily do this in MS Word by creating page-sized Text Boxes, rotating them, and linking them. However, I am trying to rid my life of MS! Is there a way to achieve the same effect in LibreOffice? It seems to me that Frames can be linked but NOT rotated 180 degrees, whereas Text Boxes can be rotated 180 degrees but NOT linked. Please, can anyone think of some way to solve this conundrum that I may have overlooked? Thank you!
What is the final medium? If it is paper, create two “ordinary” documents, one for each part. Print separately. Assemble both piles after rotating one of them.
Thank you, Ajlittoz, for your help! I’ve always submitted complete PDFs to my publisher, which has given me complete control over the book design process, but as you say, in this case i may have to entrust part of the work to someone else. Switching to LibreOffice Writer after using MS Word for years is not easy, but I’m determined to get out of the Microsoft world!
–Bernard
Pierre, thanks for taking the time to help me. Yes, the problem is that I have always presented complete PDFs to my publisher for my books, which just gave me complete control over the design process. As you say, this will require getting the professionals involved. Thanks for confirming this.
–Bernard
Export each part as PDF with Writer.
After that, reorder (last page first) and rotate the second part, then combine both parts in one.
Test with PDFsam Basic.
Hi LeroyG,
Thank you for taking the time to help. Yes, you are absolutely right! I also discovered yesterday that I can use LibreOffice Draw to rotate the pages of my PDF and even do other editing instead of having to continue the expensive Adobe Acrobat subscription.
Kind regards,
Bernard
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Be aware that Draw is not a PDF editor. It is a graphics program. Editing PDFs works as long as your computer configuration is “compatible” with the machine having created the PDF; mainly installed fonts.
You may meet issues if configurations are not close enough.
I understand. That’s valuable advice – thank you!
–B.
Thanks, LeroyG, for confirming – yup, that’s exactly the way to go.
You may need to use a different application to finalize your document if you need all in a single file, e.g. to submit to a printing service.
Scribus should do the job. It can link multiple content frames, flip/rotate them, and it supports ODF file types for content source. You will probably need to redo headers and footers, and check any graphic content for consistent placement.
More work may be required. It’s been a few years since I used Scribus (or any DTP app), so i have certainly forgotten parts of the workflow 
Test with small samples before you rely on it for a larger job.
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Thanks, Keme1, for your help! I’ve always submitted complete PDFs to my publisher, but I’ll look into Scribus for this one.
–Bernard
Sorry, meant to say Kjell!