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• • January 10, 2018 at 1:31 pm #100869
    Phil Frank

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    I’m working on a project where one portion has two parallel text streams that I want to run side by side, one in a frame on the verso page, one in a frame on the recto page. The project is complicated by the fact that each of these frames comes with a footnote frame below it, and the sizes of each of the two frames varies from page to page, and the variances on the verso page don’t necessarily match the variances on the recto page. So my plan is to create two PDF files, export each as single pages, and then merge the single pages into a unified document. The problem comes in that I’d like to run consecutive page numbers throughout, which means that file1 (verso) needs even numbered pages, while file2 (recto) needs odd numbered pages, and I don’t know how to accomplish that in InDesign (CC 2018 on Windows 7). If anyone has suggestions about how to do that–or a better way to handle the whole concept, I’d much appreciate the contribution. The current files are 67 pages each, but within the much larger project, the problem will come up again.

    Many thanks!

    Phil Frank

  • January 11, 2018 at 12:15 am #100870
    Claudio Marconato

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    Hi Phil, if I where you I’ll try too create two separate master pages, one for the recto and one for the verso pages, so that your pages panel will be an alternate series of the two masters that will never link each other.

    If you want to follow the idea you’ve described, I suggest you to create the two separate documents without numbering and, as the final step, create a unique INDD document where you can place the two separate original documents and apply the numbering to the final document. Maybe a custom script can do this final step automatically.

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