Booklet printing of A4 pages on A3 paper

I would like to print A4 pages on A3 paper in booklet form. I select Booklet Printing + Front side only + A3 media size.
The pages print off centre. They are scaled correctly but not positioned correctly. What esle to I need to specify?
I had a similar problem trying to expand A4 to B4 paper. I could not get the A4 page to be centred on the B4 paper.
Any thoughts?
My set up is: Ubuntu Lucid + Canon PIXMA Pro 9000 using Turboprint driver.
Richard
I am beginnig to wonder wether this might be an obscure bug in Acrobat reader 9?
If I generate a document from openoffice with A4 page size, I am able to print in booklet form successfully on A3 paper.
I  have been sent a PDF created from Finale (the music publishing  program). This seems to have identical properties to my OO document  except for PDF version:
Finale doc:
Title:         
Author:         Mr. Hedges
Creator:        PScript5.dll Version 5.2.2
Producer:       Bullzip PDF Printer / www.bullzip.com / Freeware Edition
CreationDate:   Fri Jul  9 17:08:58 2010
ModDate:        Fri Jul  9 17:08:58 2010
Tagged:         no
Pages:          36
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
File size:      720995 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.5
OO doc:
Creator:        Writer
Producer:       OpenOffice.org 3.2
CreationDate:   Tue Apr 26 15:56:13 2011
Tagged:         no
Pages:          4
Encrypted:      no
Page size:      595 x 842 pts (A4)
File size:      19115 bytes
Optimized:      no
PDF version:    1.4
When viewing the OO doc it will scale to whatever the  window size of Acrobat. The finale file won't. It produces a horizontal  slider.
When I print the Finale doc in booklet form the pages are  stretched horizontally to over half the length of the A3 paper so I get  only 1 and a bit pages printed per side of each sheet. Printing booklet  to A4 work fine and produces nicely scaled A5 pages.
Does anyone have any thoughts on how I can get around this problem?
Richard
Message was edited by: richardm999

Thank you, Bernd, this was the answer. In case anyone else reads this, here's what I did. From the File menu I selected Print Setup, set the paper size to A3 landscape, then opened Printer Properties. I set it to 2 pages per sheet, and under Booklet Layout chose Right edge binding. Now when I print the document I get the front cover in the correct place on the right hand side of the sheet, I turn over to see pages 1 and 2 and over again to see page 3. Perfect!

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