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• • December 8, 2010 at 8:08 am #58034
    Rhiannon Miller

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    I've just discovered (fortunately just before sending to press) that anchored objects which have been moved to a different page from their anchor (but still on the same spread) don't appear in the resulting PDF, even though there's nothing in the ID file to indicate there's anything wrong.

    Is this expected behaviour? Feature or bug?

  • December 8, 2010 at 2:26 pm #58038
    Alan Gilbertson

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    While I certainly wouldn't call it a feature, I suspect it's not a bug, but “working as designed.” If you look through the documentation on anchored objects, you'll see that implicit in all of the custom position options is that the object is on the same page as the text, and I would bet that the underlying code works on that assumption. E.g.: “Anchored Position Reference Point: Specifies the location on the page (as defined by the X and Y Relative To options), to which you want to align the object.” (Emphasis mine.)

    So if you've positioned the X co-ordinate so that your object is no longer on the same page as the text, ID would treat it the same way as if you'd positioned it on the pasteboard. It isn't “on the page.”

    I'm no InDesign Object Model expert, so perhaps Harbs or someone else will chime in here and point out that I'm completely wrong (first time ever, of course… ahem), but I'm willing to bet that's the problem.

  • December 22, 2010 at 9:14 am #58188
    Rhiannon Miller

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    Ah, I see. But then surely the objects shouldn't appear in Preview mode, which they do.

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