{"id":1972,"date":"2016-05-30T07:35:48","date_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:35:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1972"},"modified":"2016-05-30T07:35:48","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T07:35:48","slug":"booklet-imposer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/?p=1972","title":{"rendered":"Booklet Imposer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds rather dramatic but what a great little piece of software. Recently I&#8217;ve been doing the service sheet for the licensing service of our new Vicar. Not wanting to use a full publishing package as I didn&#8217;t need any of the full blown layout features, I used Word (as that is what the Diocese uses) before turning to Libreoffice.<\/p>\n<p>Libreoffice has superb PDF export features but I couldn&#8217;t find a way to export in a booklet format for printing. I need page 1 with 16 etc. from an A4 linear document to an A5 booklet.<\/p>\n<p>A quick browse online quickly gave me this little gem of a piece of software.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_2118.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Just export the document you want to convert as a PDF and then use the very simple dialogue to select the kind of conversion required: booklet out of linear document, linear document out of booklet, or multiple pages onto one page. I just had to keep the settings as they were and out came a perfect booklet. Nice!<\/p>\n<p>Booklet Imposer is in the Debian repositories and I just used (on Ubuntu 16.04):<\/p>\n<pre>sudo apt install bookletimposer<\/pre>\n<p>to install. Easy!!<\/p>\n<p>For more download and build instructions, go to the Booklet Imposer web site <a href=\"http:\/\/kjo.herbesfolles.org\/bookletimposer\/\">http:\/\/kjo.herbesfolles.org\/bookletimposer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/192.168.1.12\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/IMG_2117.jpg\" align=\"middle\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This sounds rather dramatic but what a great little piece of software. Recently I&#8217;ve been doing the service sheet for the licensing service of our new Vicar. Not wanting to use a full publishing package as I didn&#8217;t need any of the full blown layout features, I used Word (as that is what the Diocese [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1969,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider","category-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crabkey.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}