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Printing reversed images onto transfer paper with OpenOffice.org

I needed to print one of those “mirror” image prints onto some of that iron-on transfer paper ready to go on a flag (a LugRadio flag for What The Hack, as it happens). The instructions for the transfer paper say “select the Flip option when printing“. Windows does this; Linux doesn’t. So: how do you flip your nice OpenOffice document so that it’s backwards on the paper so it transfers nicely onto your flag (or t-shirt)? Easy workaround:

  1. Convert the document to a PDF
  2. Load the PDF in xpdf
  3. Hit the print button
  4. Change the “print command” from lpr to lpr -o mirror

That’s it. Worked fine.

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3 Responses to “Printing reversed images onto transfer paper with OpenOffice.org”

  1. Or

    1. In OOo print to a file, e.g. flag.ps
    2. lpr -o mirror flag.ps

    HTH

    Paul
    10 hours later

  2. Paul: wish I was as clever as you :) That’s a much better way to do it…

    sil
    11 hours later

  3. Whatever i can’t even get Windows to do this!

    crazy
    42 weeks later

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