Printing really small to save paper
Exploring hidden features of OpenOffice.org, part III.
Using OpenOffice.org you can print large line art on a quilt-like set of pages, as we found out last week in http://blogs.sun.com/oootnt/entry/drawing_large_posters. We just did set the desired output size, and OpenOffice.org automatically took care of the hard work how to distribute everything on the sheets of paper.
Now let's try to print many pages of a document on just one sheet of paper. This is really easy, and again OpenOffice.org cares for most of the work. You just design the layout of how many columns and rows of pages you want to be printed on one page of paper.
This blog covers how to print a Writer doc.
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Load your Writer document.
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Choose File - Page Preview.
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Click the Page Preview: Multiple Pages icon on the Page Preview toolbar. Setup the columns and rows to show on screen. This step is optional, just to show the arrangement of pages.
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Click the Print options page view icon. Setup the columns and rows to print on one page of paper.
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Click the Print page view icon.
Ready. Your printer outputs a nice overview of four pages next to each other.