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• • October 14, 2011 at 7:31 pm #60772
    Amy Gilbert

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    I read a post on Adobe's InDesign forum from someone who reported a bug about some page numbers coming out wrong when creating a PDF from an InDesign book (.indb file). It only happens in some documents of the book and it seems to be random. And some documents that were okay can have wrong page numbers later so you have to check every page after output. After I read the post, I checked a book I had already submitted to the printer and, sure enough, there were wrong page numbers! I fixed the problem manually because it was a short book and it was the easiest way to deal with it for me, outputting each document and then combining them in Acrobat. Has anyone else had this problem? Do you know of a good work around? I guess I'm not going to use the book feature until this is fixed.

  • October 14, 2011 at 9:28 pm #60773
    David Blatner

    Keymaster

    Wow, that is weird. I have never seen that happen. Seems more likely to be some kind of document corruption. But that does seem scary. Can you post a link to the adobe forum?

    For years, I was a huge advocate of breaking up books into little chapters, but now I tend to think anything up to a few hundred pages might just be better off in a single document, unless there are a bazillion images that would make the file too “heavy” (file size). There's no particular threshold, though.

  • October 15, 2011 at 8:52 am #60775
    Amy Gilbert

    Participant

    Here's the thread.

    The reason why I was using the book feature originally was because epub required it and I need to output it for both epub and print most of the time. I do book design for self-publishing authors. Then, even after CS 5 made it unnecessary to use the book to separate your chapters, I found it to be the easiest way to keep track of the first pages of chapters with a different master page and starting further down the page for my print version. Later, I did see an ingenious post on this site though about how to acheive that using Rule Above and Rule Below for the chapter title style, so I will do that from now on and put all my books in one document. I just don't have time to count pages after every output.

  • October 21, 2011 at 9:04 am #60874
    Lindsey Martin

    Member

    There's also a discussion of this here: https://www.creativeprogression…..t-problem/

  • October 21, 2011 at 11:46 am #60877
    Alan Gilbertson

    Participant

    It is a really nasty bug, especially in something that should be rock stable by now. It's still not clear from the Adobe forum thread or elsewhere whether this is a CS 5.5-only bug, or if it affects CS5 also.

  • October 21, 2011 at 12:06 pm #60878
    Alan Gilbertson

    Participant

    Update: I've not seen any evidence of this in any of my CS5 book projects or some tests I just did. Although “absence of evidence is not evidence of absence,” it seems like it was introduced in 5.5 and not earlier.

  • May 14, 2012 at 1:14 pm #62182
    Amy Gilbert

    Participant

    This bug has been fixed! It is mentioned in a blog post on this site: https://creativepro.com/ind…..leased.php.

  • July 18, 2012 at 5:38 pm #62639
    Shawn Girsberger

    Member

    So glad I checked here before posting my similar problem with page numbering in a few PDFs exported from the Book palette! I just ran the update, reexported, and the page numbering is as it should be. I don't know why I hadn't gotten an automatic update, but I definitely will turn it on now, and will pass this information on to my clients, who have the same problem from other vendors.

    I really appreciate all of the advice and good humor here at InDesign Secrets!

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