Printing 32-page segments of a novel in book format

[Woolseydip]

I referred to the March '17 answer from @anon87010807 , regarding printing in book form. My question is whether I need to break my document into segments and print them separately. The book is 335 pages. I’m using LO 7.5.0.3 on MacOS Mojave v. 10.14…6 to a b/w Brother MFC-L2750DW laser printer.

My goal is to print pages 1 - 32 on 8 sheets of 8.5 x 11 paper so they fold (one fold) into consecutive 5.5 x 8.5 pages, then proceed with 8 more sheets for pages 33 through 64 and so on. As a test, I tried printing in brochure mode by printing pages 5 through 8, which I figured would take one sheet of paper. One sheet of paper came out of the printer, but the pages printed were 5, 6, 334, and 335, the first two designated pages and the last two of the entire file, not the pages I had designated. Also the pages were upside down on the back of the sheet and the image greatly shrunk, but those are issues I hope to work out along the way.

QUESTIONS:

1. Do I need to break the file into 32 page segments, or is there a way to convince the printer to print (in brochure mode!!) the pages I’ve designated from the whole novel file?

2. The pages are paginated in a footer throughout the file. Assuming I have to create multiple 32-page files, will I be able to start the page numbers properly on segments subsequent to the first one?

Copious gratitude for any help offered!

[EarnestAl]

I found that my Brother MFC-J6945DW printer will rotate the page a second time if I send it a document set to print as booklet in LibreOffice dialogue. I have to set LibreOffice to normal single page print and to use the Brother dialogue for booklets.

I was just looking through my notes that I made when I originally bought the printer and I saw I had a link to to PdfBooklet PdfBooklet download | SourceForge.net which appears to offer multiple booklets as a printing option from pdf, as well as single booklet. I haven’t tried it as I discovered my workaround before I got that far.

[ajlittoz]

The print dialog allows you to designate which pages to print. Click on the Pages radio button, then enter 1-32 for the first job, 33-64 for the second, etc.

Note that the page number in this dialog is the physical page number, not necessarily equal to the page number in the footer/header in case you have unnumbered pages or you restarted the page number.

This can become boring with a long book. You could try to drive your job with a small script launching Writer for every “segment”. I’ll let you design such a script because i am not familiar with command line options. May be other contributors?