I have now combined my workaround and Laubender's Anschnitt/Zuschnitt settings and I have an even better solution than I was originally looking for. Which I have done.Īlso, creating each book as an Indesign Book has advantages when exporting to EPUB. but again, there's no warning when I mess it up. You can see that in the past I used a hack of putting (o) or (e) in the document name to remind myself "this one matters which page it starts on". The InDesign Book (.indb) for the Spark volume in the example above looks like this:įor me, that's tons easier to manage as I build the anthology/litmag than putting all the stories into a single document. title page, about the staff, section dividers) Easily reuse components that are the same in every book and make sure they get updated consistently (e.g.Logically divide the book up into its component parts.Assign each document to a different person so that several pieces can be worked on in parallel.Move stories and poems around until I feel like they're in the perfect order.Here's two examples of things I've published using this method: Performance is actually not even on my list of reasons for using the Book feature. How long is the book, do you really need to split it into so many chapters? There was a huge advantage doing that 10 or 15 years ago, but would 50-100 page doc cause a performance problem? I want some kind of HEY DUMMY alert when that happens. In the next two examples, where you've added pages to Chapter 1 and Chapter 2, Chapter 3 now starts on an even-numbered verso and the illustration will be split between spreads. In the first image of your three screenshots, Chapter 3 starts on the correct page, so I wouldn't need or care about a warning that I had messed up the layout. Then I can decide whether to resolve it by adjusting document order, manually adding a blank page, etc.Įdited to add: comparing your example to what I'm doing, let's say that Chapter 1 and Chapter 2 can start on any page (odd or even) but because of a full-spread illustration that spans pages 14 and 15, Chapter 3 absolutely must start on an odd-numbered recto. The only thing I'd like to do is get some kind of warning when that correct behavior causes a "must-be-an-odd/even" page (of which there are only three in this particular book) to be shuffled to the wrong side of the spread. The behavior is as expected (and as desired), since I want things to be reflowed/adjusted/renumbered throughout the book as individual documents move or change. Thanks, Rob! Yes, this is exactly how I'm using book and document numbering-and it's also the reason it is possible for a page to be shuffled as I move documents around in the book or add pages to a chapter as in your example. This is probably not what I'll use as my permanent solution, but it's quick, it does the minimum of what I need, and I didn't spend hours tweaking a script to be really awesome and feature-packed (which is what I often do when I should be getting books completed and printed. Here's two examples from the exported PDFs, one where "Bird Watching" starts on the correct (even) page and one where it has been moved earlier in the book and would start on the wrong (odd) page.
This consistently causes the "Wrong Side" text to be outside the print area when the first page is correct, but plastered over everything else when the first page is wrong.Īnd it stands out well in a visual preview, too. Reorder documents in the book and watch the page numbers update.Set the paragraph options to Align away from spine (for pages that should always appear on the left) or Align towards spine (for pages that should always appear on the right).Type something like "Wrong Side" in the text frame and set the text to be really big and really red.Add a new text frame to the Warnings layer and size it exactly twice the width of the document page.Add a new printing layer on top of all other layers.Uncheck Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle is unchecked on pages where there is an illustration that must appear on a specific side of the spread (except for the first page, even if the first page has an illustration).Make sure Allow Selected Spread to Shuffle is checked on the first page of the document.Make sure Allow Document Pages to Shuffle is checked.In the document that has to start on a specific page:.Put all the documents into a book and enable automatic numbering.I really want to get the script working as part of my automation, but for now, so that I can get things proofed and published, here is my workaround.
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