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How to resize text frame content with margin/layout changes?

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    • March 12, 2017 at 11:30 am #92820
      Anonymous
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      Hey guys, I’ve been banging my head against the wall on this one for a while. I want to change a book I designed to have more room in the margins (from .5″ to 1″). However, when I do this all of the text frames still stay at their original size. I’m changing the margins in the Master Sheets.

      I’ve been reading and reading and can’t find anywhere how to make the content of text frames automatically resize to the new margins. Tried so many things with liquid layouts… is there honestly no way to do this?

      I’m guessing people have come into the problem before where they design an entire book then discover they need a little more room in the margins… do you really have to start your book design over from scratch if you need to change these margins after you’ve already inserted the content? I find that hard to believe.

      Greatly appreciate anyone who can help me figure out how to resize text frame content to match new margins set in the master sheets.

    • March 13, 2017 at 3:01 am #92822
      Kai Rübsamen
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      It should work if the textframes are aligned at the margins and if you turn on “Enable Layout Adjustment” in the Margin and Columns panel. Then change the margins on the masterpages.

      Kai

    • March 13, 2017 at 9:15 am #92831
      Anonymous
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      Hey, Kai, thanks so much, this works for individual documents. However, when I try to apply it to every document in my book based on my style-selected Master Pages, it doesn’t apply the layout change to all documents. Do I have to do this change to each individual document, or is there a way to Synchronize the book to make the new margins apply to all documents at once?

      Thanks again for your help.

    • March 14, 2017 at 1:34 am #92840
      Kai Rübsamen
      Member

      Hi Chris,

      what does “based on my style-selected Master Pages” mean?

      I would assume, that you must activate Layout Adjustment per document. Then change one document and try to sync all documents in the book with this first doc.

      Kai

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