No options to print pdf as booklet on KDE Neon with Plasma 6.2

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Have HP Toolbox installed and no problems printing on network or personal printers.

Problem is, there’s no option to “print as booklet” when running in KDE Neon Plasma 6.2

(Not an issue on Windows 11).

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Hey there!
So what exactly does the ‘print as booklet’ option do?

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It quite nicely arranges two pages on one (long edge). ::

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Can you check in the paper size settings…maybe u get an option there…

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Is there not an option to export to pdf, libreoffice offers that.

Do you need to install acrobat on your system ?

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Talking KDE Neon here with default Okular, sir.

@TypeHrishi - almost have it figured out.

Print 2 pages on one side is good.
Have to resolve why the second side of the page is printed upside down.

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Easy … its for the Australian members, not simply you put tge paper in wrong

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Try this
a2ps -Pprintername filename
You may need to install a2ps
It will do lots of other things too.

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Ah, so that’s it!

It’s an Aussie printer on the network! ::

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Haven’t gotten to that tip yet.

Day has been rather hectic…

Also working on LibreOffice Writer booklet style document.
Apparently, Word does a better job (which is on my Windows 11 side of the border).

Always a tug of war between Linux and Windows.

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I now prefer using this but sometime have to search for how to do, page layout for books is always difficult first few times, with headers, footers, simple but margins and gutters, left and right pages… more taxing.

Then add styles, table of content, index.
Not to mention end notes and footnotes !

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I think I would be looking at Calibre to format it… especially if it is an ebook.
It does not matter what you use to write the text… do the styling afterwards.

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If it is really going to be a book, you need more than a2ps.
If you just want to print 2 pages per page, a2ps is the right tool.

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Its always interesting to read suggestions on which tool is best for creation of something.

I came through apple so in desktop publishing terms it was quark for professionnel and pagemaker (no longer available) for low end stuff… then microsoft came out with publisher again bit the dust !

For my use calibra is for book transfer to kindle nothing else, something I use once a year to stick a few thousand books on.

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Not sure how this works, but did try just now (failed).

a2ps -P+long printer name space long file name.

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Found an app called Boomeraga.
It does a good job (manually at least, from a 1st try) but must adjust and find proper margins… something for which time is not always available.
https://www.boomaga.org/

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Example
a2ps -Poki myfile
for my oki printer to print myfile

What message did it give when it failed?
I has to be a .txt file or a .pdf file or a .ps file . I dont think a2ps can handle Word files or other binary formats. It should handle any ascii or utf file… ie anything readable.

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Just that it failed.

What do you mean by “Poki”?

That’s exactly how I feel today.

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-P is the command option
oki is the name of my printer… ie the short name you set in CUPS when you setup the printer.

You can leave out -Pxxx and it will use the default printer, if a default is set.
So try
a2ps filename

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Have been using a network printer for booklet work:
HP_OfficeJet_Pro_9010

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