![]() ![]() If you have not encountered this as frequently as I have, I have to ask what I'm going that is causing me to need to add pages mid-documenr, thus causing the cascading shift from recto to verso. I feel this discussion has gotten into the weeds of linked threads and reflow options, which are really irrelevant to the issue at hand: that when a recto page containing a primary text frame gets pushed to verso for ANY reason, a blank frame gets added behind. There are other occasions where this issue arises in which I could rethink my approach to avoid ever allowing a recto page with a primary frame get pushed to verso. I could, for example, design it such that a new chapter always begins on a recto page, but that's not what the client wants. In I've sense it seems like maybe a unique case. I don't see a way to avoid this "empty frame added" issue in such a case when I need to make a revision to an earlier chapter. My current project is about 1600 pages total, structured as a book comprising about 20 separate documents. I've been working with long documents in InDesign since 2003 and I have created books up to 3,200 pages. I don't think you're doing a whole lot wrong - but what I can see is normal behaviour. Seriously look into working with Book Documents - turning off Smart Text Reflow for certain instances - Anchoring Images in your Text Frames so they flow correctly and with the text. I think there's more going on here than you think.įor a document like this - a File>New Book - might be a better workflow for you - and each document in your book would have it's own file - you compile the files in the Book Panel and arrange them as necessary.Īs said already the Text Reflow Options are great if it's threaded from Start to Finish with no breaks within the document threading.įor this workflow I would turn off Smart Text Reflow and control the relow manually. I would add this as an anchored image within the text frame.įrom what I can see the file is behaving normally - the pages move on - I am not seeing extra text frames behind existing text frames.įor Chapter 2 - you need this to start on a Right Hand Page - so you need to set that up in the Paragraph Style Chapter 2 will get pushed to verso and a blank text frame gets added behind the primary frame.īy not seeing the issue - except that you say you're manually adding pages for say an image. how to I place text that will add pages as they're needed and will fill both verso and recto and will stay within the master page text frame?Īnd I swear I'll save the answer, print it, and put it on my wall.Let's say you want to add a full-page graphic to the end of chapter 1, so you add a blank page between the end of chapter 1 and the beginning of chapter 2. Also stupid is if I hadn't guessed enough pages and had to repeat the procedure. Then, of course, I must delete any pages left over. ![]() I load the overflow, go to the second page, and click (I don't shift-click), and voilá, the text flows correctly into verso and recto pages, within the primary text flow boxes I've set up. In all following pages, text flows into the whole primary text frame.įinally, I guess at about the number of pages the document will need for the text: I hold shift when I click in that second page. ![]() I place text only into the text box on the first page, then manually connect it to the next. I start again, this time (cannily) with three pages. Pages are added, but they flow only into the left side. I place text, holding the shift key to add necessary pages for the text. The master page, both verso and recto, is set up with text boxes that make a primary text flow. The document doesn't have "Primary Text Frame" checked. Whenever I do, I invariably end up either a) flowing text only into the verso pages of the spreads, or b) flowing it (after the first page or two), not into the master page text frame, but into the "primary text frame" that's made out of the page margins. I almost never use it for its main purpose, paging books or magazines. I'm afraid I've always found ID's text flow procedure incredibly unintuitive. Apologies for a question that has been asked and answered thousands of times, but I've spent 40 minutes trying to find the answer without success. ![]()
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