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• • October 16, 2013 at 9:02 am #65828
    Ian Barker

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    I’ve been working on a book (200+ pp.) in a document, but recently transferred it to a book file. I have it set up as spreads with the inside margins set bigger than the outside. Now that I’ve exported it to a PDF, I see that because the chapters are not always an even number of pages, sometimes there are two pages in a row that do not follow the spread setup. Meaning, the last page of a chapter and the first page of the next has the larger margin on the inside or outside fold of the book.

    In essence, I want it to print like a book and I can control this in a document, but it appears that I can’t control this in a book file.

  • October 16, 2013 at 1:03 pm #65840
    Ian Barker

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    Found this other thread with the same question, but the answer provided didn’t help:

    Book with 11 sections: should they be recombined for printing?

  • October 16, 2013 at 1:54 pm #65842
    JoAn Armstrong

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    Hi Ian,

    Go to the book panel flyout menu and choose “Book Page Numbering Options” and choose either “Continue on next odd page” or “Continue on next even page”. Then you can check the box “Insert Blank Page” and this should give you want you want.

    Hope this helps!

    Janine

  • October 16, 2013 at 1:56 pm #65843
    Matt Mayerchak

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    This is not difficult.

    Do you want to have Indesign automatically switch the opening page of a chapter to left (verso) or right (recto) based on what side of the spread the previous chapter ended on? If so, you should just have the Book feature using auto page renumbering. If you want to manually decide which side of the spread each starts on, just set the section opener page # for each file as the page # you want to use, and tell the Book feature not to renumber the pages.

    You can control this from the Book panel, whichever way you choose to do it.

    However, your inside/outside margins may not come out correctly when the pages are switched from verso to recto, depending on how they were set up. In InDesign CS6 and CC, you can use a primary text frame on the Master page to help this work better for the main text thread, but a lot depends on how complicated your layouts are and what else is on the spread. I strongly recommend starting from the front of the book, and manually setting the page #s for each chapter using the section options menu, so that you can decide which side of the spread each page is on. An odd numbered page will stay on the right side, and an even numbered page will stay on the left.

  • October 16, 2013 at 2:05 pm #65844
    Ian Barker

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    In general preferences, I changed “Page Numbering” from “Absolute Numbering” to “Section Numbering” and that seemed to do the trick. Before all the page numbers for each book file were starting at ‘1’ in the Book panel, but after making the switch they ran sequentially across book files again.

    Exported the PDF again and it seemed to run right again.

    I’ll read through the other tips later tonight.

    Thanks.

  • December 15, 2015 at 5:18 pm #80228
    randy griffin

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    I have the same problem, and the pages constantly duplicated, and nothing I could do as I am not so expert in the software. So I decided to bring it to our local publisher https://www.digitekprinting.com/, they are also using InDesign software so it they fix it without further issues.

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