I have a 5.5" x 8.5" document. It prints on exactly half a sheet of US Letter paper (8.5" x 11") in landscape format. Everything works fine. However, it wastes half a sheet of paper.
Therefore, t I want to print another copy of the same document on the other half of the page.
The problem is that when I do the obvious thing and tell Writer to print two pages on 1 sheet, it unneccessarily scales the documents down. No scaling is required.
UPDATE: even though this is label paper with 2 labels per sheet, I cannot currently use the Label Template feature of LO; I have another question at ask.libreoffice.org on that issue. In this question I am looking for solutions that do not involve Label Templates.
After a couple days of trying everything, I am coming here for help. Here are the settings:
The page formatting that works perfectly for printing 1 copy on half the sheet is:
- Paper Format: Letter
- Width: 11"
- Height:8.5"
- Orientation: landscape
- Margins:
- Left: 0.5"
- Right: 6.1"
- Top: 0.5"
- Bottom: 0.25"
- 1 page per sheet
I changed those settings as follows in my attempt to solve this challenge:
- Paper Format: User
- Width: 5.5"
- Height:8.5"
- Orientation: portrait
- Margins:
- Left: 0.5"
- Right: 0.5"
- Top: 0.5"
- Bottom: 0.25"
- 2 pages per sheet
I tried many variations but could not come up with the proper solution. Every variation I tried resulted in Writer scaling down the document and printing two much smaller copies on the 1 sheet.