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• • August 5, 2011 at 9:06 am #60222
    Allen Cobb

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    When I delete pages from the beginning of any document, ID5.5 deletes the correct number of pages, but only from the end of the document. It doesn't delete the pages I selected.

    The above problem is due to a complete brain-spasm.

    Since all the text was in a single story, deleting pages doesn't “mean” what I thought it should mean. In other words, deleting pages doesn't delete the content in the text frames on those pages — it deletes pages and frames, and the content reflows accordingly, giving the impression that only the last pages were deleted.

    The solution, of course, is to edit the story, and not try to remove portions of a document by deleting pages (unless perhaps there are page-layouts you also want to delete).

    I'm leaving this classically stupid question posted so that some InDesign newbie might find this and recognize, as I did, the basic misunderstanding that had temporarily baffled me.

  • June 16, 2012 at 7:01 am #62445
    barncat

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    Exactly. I think the biggest challenge in learning this program has to do with putting your own mind in the real flow of the program itself. It works differently than anything I've ever had experience with. And frankly, I see this as a metaphor for living in our world – we tell so many stories about what life “should” be that we lose sight of the fact that we have to live with life as it really is, if we want any chance at all to work to a desired end. You have to learn the real rules, not play the game by your own. And inDesign does not think the way I do, so I have to learn to think the way IT does. Context, purview – the willingness to work with what is really there.

    I ran into the potential to have created the same snafu yesterday and managed to avoid it by having actually learned from my mistakes. But honestly, sitting in front of that computer for nearly nine hours, trying to stitch together book covers (back and forth between Photoshop, which I nearly understand, and this program) and outguess the wildly self-willed and inconsistant world of epub logic – I find myself staring stupidly at the screen and doing the same minute corrections wrong over and over again, a sort of dumb pattern of repetition. Eating is always good. And running somewhere – anywhere.

    Thank you, it's good to know that other people understand this – and are willing to share.

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