CreativePro Forum

Return to Member Forum

• Author
  Posts
• • January 9, 2015 at 9:06 am #72603
    Scott Irwin

    Member

    I never had this issue until recently…and I have no idea how or why it started.

    When I go to export a PDF:
    1. – I select my preset
    2. – Under GENERAL I have ALL and SPREADS checked under pages. The RANGE button is not checked but shows All Pages in the drop down menu.
    3. – Marks and Bleeds section I have all check boxes except color bar

    When I export, the final PDF has the page info at the bottom (like it’s suppose to) BUT instead of having the page range (like it used to) it now says ALL PAGES. There is also another option in the Page Range section that says CUSTOM V. I don’t ever recall having this option in the page range before.

    Even if I highlight and delete either All Pages, or Custom V from the Range drop down menu, and have ALL and SPREADS selected for export, it will ALWAYS put one or the other at the end of the page information on the PDF.

    I’ve even tried typing in 2-3, but it comes out ALL PAGES.
    I’ve trashed my preferences, but still comes up.

    I have NO Alternate Layouts in my documents, not on the pages palette, nothing. What am I missing?

  • January 9, 2015 at 10:19 am #72604
    Gustavo Martinez

    Member

    Is this happening with one specific document? If so, I would export it to IDML, open it and try again.

  • January 9, 2015 at 11:20 am #72605
    Scott Irwin

    Member

    No, it’s doing it globally. Doesn’t matter what file I open to export, I always have those 2 options in the Range field.

  • January 9, 2015 at 12:24 pm #72606
    Gustavo Martinez

    Member

    Then I would re-install Indesign. This is a very unusual behavior.

  • January 9, 2015 at 1:37 pm #72610
    Dwayne Harris

    Member

    I can’t help with your current problem, but so far as I know the “Custom V” has always been an option in the drop down and is the default. I have never used it, nor the drop down menu to be honest. I just click the top button that says “all.”

    • January 9, 2015 at 1:40 pm #72611
      Gustavo Martinez

      Member

      I’ve used it when I want to print certain pages or page ranges. No problem at all.

    • January 9, 2015 at 3:50 pm #72614
      Dwayne Harris

      Member

      Yup–which means the range field is normal.

      It’s very odd about the “ALL PAGES” thing in the slug line, though.

      SCOTT: What version of InDesign is this? Mac or Windows?

    • January 12, 2015 at 7:27 am #72622
      Scott Irwin

      Member

      We are using InDesign Creative Suite CS6 for Mac…OSX 10.9.5. And like I said before, I wasn’t having this issue before. It seems like it just randomly happened before I caught it.

      I checked the document to see if a custom V page was created, but it’s not. The master pages is just Master A with spreads, nothing unusual.

  • January 12, 2015 at 11:23 am #72635
    Kenneth Darby

    Member

    Have you referred to Podcast 188 where David and Anne-Marie discuss Letter V. It has to do with the alternate layout function and publishing for Kindle or other e-reader.

    I specialize in print and variable content so I don’t know any more than the above is a good place to start.

• Author
  Posts