Printing an A5 brochure in LibreOffice Writer

You can print a LibreOffice Writer document as a brochure or a booklet. That is, Writer prints two pages on each side of the paper, so that when you fold the paper, you can read the document as a book.

When you create a document that you want to print as a brochure, write your document in ordinery A4 pages, using portrait orientation for the pages. Writer will apply the brochure layout when you print the document.

To Print a Brochure

Choose File – Print.
In the Print dialog, click Properties.
In the properties dialog for your printer, set the paper orientation to landscape.

If your printer prints duplex, and because brochures always print in landscape mode, you should use the “duplex – short edge” setting in your printer setup dialog.

Return to Print dialog, and click the Page Layout tab page.
Select Brochure.
For a printer that automatically prints on both sides of a page, specify to include “All pages”.

Click OK.

If you print a document in portrait on a landscape page, two opposing sides in a brochure will be printed next to each other. If you have a printer with double-sided printing capability, you can create an entire brochure from your document without having to collate the pages later. If you have a printer that only has single-sided printing capability, you can achieve this effect by first printing the front pages with the “Front sides / right pages /odd pages” option marked, then re-inserting the entire paper stack in your printer and printing all the back pages with the “Back pages / left pages / even pages” option marked.
Note: If LibreOffice prints the pages in the wrong order, open the Options tab page, select Print in reverse page order, and then print the document again.

How to install TeamViewer

The QuickSupport TeamViewer download page is here:  http://www.teamviewer.com/download.

For Windows you should download the “Quick Support” version.

For Debian you’ll need to download the “Deb” 32-Bit / 64-Bit Multiarch “All-in-One TeamViewer Full Version” file and SAVE IT TO DISK.
NB: Don’t go for the 64-Bit without Multiarch version (it seems to have a few issues, as of August 2014).

Then you need to install it with gdebi:

sudo gdebi /Downloads/teamviewer_linux.deb

(where teamviewer_linux.deb is the name of the downloaded file).

Once installed, you can find and open it from the Applications Menu:

Applications Menu > Internet > Teamviewer

 

 

Website:  http://www.teamviewer.com

 

 

 

Why you get viruses

This interesting study by a Danish security firm (http://net-security.org/malware_news.php?id=1863) found the main reasons people get viruses is because they don’t update their software.

The main vectors for getting infected are via old versions of Adobe Flash, Adobe PDF Reader, Java and Microsoft Internet Explorer. So if you use these, make sure you keep them up to date.

The conclusion of this study is that as much as 99.8 % of all virus/malware infections caused by commercial exploit kits are a direct result of the lack of updating five specific software packages.

Microsoft also recently published a similar study where they found about 90% of virus infections were through unpatched software.

As they say, prevention is better than a cure. As annoying as it is, it’s safer to keep your software up to date (and less annoying than getting a virus).