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• • October 16, 2012 at 12:40 am #63366
    P Kosterman

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    Hello,

    I'm working on several books in indesign CS 5 with many hundreds of footnotes. I know this can be a problem in Indesign, and until now I always

    fixed the incorrect numbering with notes in tables by using a dummy number.

    Now I have several seperate frames containing pictures, text and corresponding footnotes in fixed frames. The text on the main textframe is still changing.

    So the dummy footnotes could move to other pages, so after every change I have to check all footnotes again.

    Is there no other way to let the numbering continue in seperate frames?

    Thanks

  • October 16, 2012 at 1:30 am #63368
    Theunis De Jong

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    No. Alas.

    … well. The only way I can think of is to ignore the existing note numbers altogether, and supply your own — entirely manually. Hide the ones in your text by setting its color to [None] and its size to 0.1 pt. Insert your own superscript numbers in the text and in the note itself. It'll be hell to update, though.

    Please complain to Adobe about this, and other Footnote Related Issues here: https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

    Perhaps this will get addressed in the next version of ID, rather than yet even more e-pub options, a straight conversion to HTML5, and an integrated web page/CSS editor.

  • October 16, 2012 at 3:08 am #63370
    P Kosterman

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    Thanks, I'd hoped I didn't had to do this all manually. :s. But indeed the next version has to have an updated footnotes option. I allready send an issue to Adobe… So let's hope they see what kind of problems we all have with the note option.

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