Unwanted Duplicate Graphic ADOR

[Scott B]

Hello everyone,

🧩 Issue Summary: I'm working with a small graphic ADOR that dynamically links to EPS files containing various company logos. These logos are intended to populate the graphic ADOR, which sits on top of a PDFTable. The PDFTable itself is defined by a function, a variable, and its Table ADOR, and works properly by bringing in its PDF listed in the appropriate data source.

📄 Problem Details: The issue arises when the PDFTable is set to AutoFlow. The PDF being used is four pages long (two spreads). When the graphic ADOR is placed anywhere on the first spread—whether on the left page, right page, over the PDFTable, or even on the pasteboard—it unexpectedly generates an extra logo in InDesign on the second spread in the same location that it was in on the first spread. 

As a reference point, a two-page PDF, in a PDFTable, does not create an extra logo on the right-hand page of the first and only spread. This problem has something to do with how XMPie is linking the graphic ADOR to appear again on the second spread, and probably the third, fourth, fifth spreads, et cetera, that would be created in longer PDF files that use PDFTables.

🎯 Desired Outcome: Logos, in this case, should only populate on the first page of the PDF—no duplication of the logo on the second spread. The goal is to keep the graphic ADOR (logo-populater) limited to the initial spread without triggering additional logos or repeated content on subsequent spreads.

Does anyone have a suggestion to work around this challenge? I've tried Page Numbering Visibility, at a basic level, and putting a white box over the second spread's unwanted logo without the desired outcome. Also, I would like to continue utilizing the PDFTable method to bring the PDF into the dynamic document because I only need one column of data to designate the PDF. Instead of four data columns, if I were using four graphic ADORs (one PDF each for the initial four-page PDFs' pages).

Thank you for your suggestions!

Scott Byers

Amedisys

[couch]

Everything on the mold page is duplicated for auto flow. This is how it is designed to work.

Solution is to manually add an extra page. Manually make you table flow to the extra page. Don't add the logo to the extra page.

Now turn on auto flow, select the extra page as the mold page not the original page with the logo.

And, uncheck the box that creates at least one instance of the mold page, so that if the linked table only needs the original page with the logo, the extra mold page is not added by default.