Just Screwed up L/R Pagination by Putting Docs into INDB to Check Page Count

[Rick Gordon]

Ouch!

I just put a bunch of files (mostly 2- or 4-page spreads) into a
temporary book to check the total page count, and it made the first page
of the first document a recto, so everything following got flipped --
and auto-saved.

Can anyone suggest a quick fix besides going to backups and possibly
lose some changes, or laboriously reset the spreads, chapter by chapter,
and possibly face the additional hassle of misplaced master items.

What's the best strategy for this never, ever, to happen again?

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RICK GORDON
EMERALD VALLEY GRAPHICS AND CONSULTING
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WWW: http://www.shelterpub.com

[Michael Brady]

Rick

> I just put a bunch of files (mostly 2- or 4-page spreads) into a temporary book to check the total page count, and it made the first page of the first document a recto, so everything following got flipped -- and auto-saved.

Can you undo it? And turn off the auto pagination thing in the Book panel.

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> Can anyone suggest a quick fix besides going to backups and possibly lose some changes, or laboriously reset the spreads, chapter by chapter, and possibly face the additional hassle of misplaced master items.

I rarely use the Book feature, so I’m working from memory here. Go to the first document and reset its first page to a verso (p. 2, probably). Does that fix it (them)? If all of them are even numbers of pages (2, 4, etc.), everything should work out fine. If any of them contain an odd number of pages, make sure the pagination in the book adds a blank page. There’s a control or that, but I forget where it is.

> What's the best strategy for this never, ever, to happen again?

Doctor, my arm hurts when I raise it like this. What should I do?
Don’t raise your arm like that.

[kssssh] Rim shot!



That’s the best I can come up with on a Saturday night.


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Michael Brady

[Karol Keane]

Ok
This may sound stupid, but what if you inserted a new page before page 1 throwing 1 back to a left?

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[Rick Gordon]

Oh, I can do it by just opening each doc and Set Start Page to 2, while
leaving auto page numbering enabled.

But I will also protect the docs (and lock it into the template) to not
allow page shuffle and not allow selected spreads to shuffle.

And save the book doc with Automatic Pagination Update disabled.

AND I WILL NOT FORGET!!

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[Harbs]

You might be able to use Reflective Objects to flip objects if that is an issue. http://in-tools.com/products/plugins/reflective-objects/

Harbs

[Rick Gordon]

I opened all the docs, and ran a script to cycle through them to set
allowPageShuffle for documentPreferences and for spreads, without
saving, so I could then do a visual reality check, save and close. Most
were fine, but there were a couple where a spread-wide image only
covered the left page, after reshuffling.

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On 12/20/15, 12:11 AM, Harbs wrote:
> You might be able to use Reflective Objects to flip objects if that is an issue. http://in-tools.com/products/plugins/reflective-objects/

[Rick Gordon]

Harbs, is there a document attribute for auto page numbering? I could
only locate one as an attribute of a book.

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On 12/20/15, 11:09 PM, Rick Gordon wrote:
> I opened all the docs, and ran a script to cycle through them to set
> allowPageShuffle for documentPreferences and for spreads, without
> saving, so I could then do a visual reality check, save and close.
> Most were fine, but there were a couple where a spread-wide image only
> covered the left page, after reshuffling.

[Harbs]

It’s a section attribute.

[Michael Brady]

Rick wrote:

> but there were a couple where a spread-wide image only covered the left page, after reshuffling.

What happened, was it truncated (cropped)?

Objects that cover both pages of a spread are associated with the left page. Even if the image is only .01 point on the left page, if you change pagination in any way (adding or deleting a page, shuffling them, etc.), the image will travel with the left page, so that the image that just barely touched the left page will remain with it and not remain with the right page.



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Michael Brady