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Pasteboard gone wonky

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    • November 10, 2010 at 6:10 pm #57680
      Kaycam
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      Hi,

      I recently copied a page in the Pages palette by dragging the page to the new page icon, and suddenly my pasteboard acted funny. The spreads on the pasteboard became way, way, apart, and I had to scroll quite a bit to get to the next spread.

      Normally you can scroll through pages with the mouse scroller and get to the next spread in a few seconds, but in this instance the spreads became far apart and I had to scroll and scroll and scroll to get to the next spread. When I minimized the view, the spreads were not close together like they normally are.

      I hope my query is clear. But does anyone know why this happens and how it can be fixed?

      Using ID CS3 on a Mac.

      Thanks,

      Kay

    • November 10, 2010 at 7:09 pm #57681
      emonstreme
      Member

      Kay,

      I have had this happen multiple times. Usually somthing is on the far reaches of the pasteboard like a stray text box. Try selecting all and see if anything highlights around the upper or lower edges of the document. Get rid of it then go into your InDesign menu>Preferences>Guides & Pasteboard and change the Margin to your desired increment.

      There have been times when reusing a document repeatedly that I could not find the issue and had to start a new document and move everything over. If that is the case you can use the Opt.+ Page Up/Down key to quickly scroll through pages.

      -Eric

    • November 11, 2010 at 10:56 am #57693
      Kaycam
      Member

      Thanks, Eric

    • November 16, 2010 at 9:40 am #57763
      Somerset Walmsley
      Member

      Is there a rotate/twirly icon next to the page/spread? It sounds like the spread is rotated, which also rotates the pasteboard, resulting in a very tall, but narrow pasteboard, just as you're describing. If you zoom out really far, you should be able to see the differences of the wonky pasteboard and the normal, non-rotated ones.

    • November 17, 2010 at 2:35 am #57773
      Tim Hughes
      Member

      It was/is a known bug with CS3

      If you change the page size by a tiny amount, click ok and that should fix it, then just go and change it back.

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