Mike Chaney's Tech Corner

Does Qimage have a functionality to arrange images on pages in a way that after double-sided printing one could make a brochure or a book?

For example, for a book of 8 pages it is needed 2 sheets of paper:
Page 1, 1 side: image 8 in the left column and image 1 in the right column;
Page 1, 2 side: image 2 in the left column and image 7 in the right column;
Page 2, 1 side: image 6 in the left column and image 3 in the right column;
Page 2, 2 side: image 4 in the left column and image 5 in the right column.

I've attached an image to show what I mean.

You can do it but you are going to have to control the order.  What I would do is create two jobs like this:

Job8163
Job2745

Set both jobs up landscape and have both jobs contain 2 pages where the first job (Job8163) has templates for photos 8 and 1 on the first page and 6 and 3 on the second page.  Make sure you drag and drop photo 8 and photo 1 on the first page and photo 6 and 3 on the second page.  Or just click on the + button on the thumbnails for photo 8, photo 1, photo 6, and photo 3 and they will go in that order.  Print and flip the pages over, feed them back into the printer on the opposite sides, and repeat for Job2745 placing photos 2 and 7 on the first page and photos 4 and 5 on the second page.

The job names should help you remember which photos go in and in which order.  You'd have to get used to how to flip the sheets making sure to get the order correct but once you get the hang of it, it should be pretty simple.

Regards,
Mike

Thank you for your advice, Mike!