You have a single image file that is linked to multiple documents. The most straightforward way to accomplish relinking it would be to move the old logo to some other location, then copy the new logo file into the old location and rename it so it has the same name as the old one.

Open all the book documents and click “update links” as each one opens. Not much you can do about that part.

Paul, at this point I’d be casting around for an excuse *not* to delete that leftover laevo. For example, if there is any logical break in the sequence of topics, or any other reasonable pretext, I would put some kind of graphic or marker on the otherwise-blank page. (It is standard practice for a new chapter to begin on a right hand page (recto), even if the facing page is blank, so this isn’t such an outrageous idea.)

Assuming that’s not possible:

InDesign assigns the corresponding master pages to the left (laevo) and right (recto) pages of each spread. It applies the master to the *page*, not to the *content*. When you remove a single page, then, every subsequent page is now on the opposite side. What was a recto has become a laevo, and vice versa. That’s the way InDesign works.

The first workaround that occurs to me is to set up a second master spread as a mirror image of the original, so that what currently is on the left page goes to the right and what was on the right goes to the left. That’s the kind of thing you can do in a layout that would never work in politics. But I digress.

In the pages panel, select all the problem pages (click on the first one, shift-click on the last one). Apply the new master to them in one shot by picking “Apply Master to Pages…” from the Pages panel flyout menu and choosing your mirror-image master spread.

For the future, you can avoid running head issues like the one you describe. Extend the author name text frames the full width of their respective pages. In the paragraph style for the author name, go to the Indents and Spacing section and select “Toward Spine” or “Away from Spine” from the Alignment dropdown, depending on where you want them to appear. You can do the same with page numbers and other items that must be placed toward or away from the spine. In your particular scenario, you’d have two text frames, one directly above the other: one for the page number and one for the author name.

From the sound of things, you have another object on that left page, which could be an image or another text frame (and possibly on a different layer), with Word Wrap turned on. This object is probably on the master page, based on your description.

Try right-clicking on the text frame, choosing Text Frame Options, and checking “Ignore Text Wrap.” You text should automagically appear. If that’s the case, remove whatever object is causing the problem or change its text-wrap setting to “off”.

There are two related-but-different design issues here. One is the run-of-the-mill issue of sizing things correctly, the other is the one Salieri is concerned with: “designing for tiny” is different from “designing for big.”

There are plenty of print situations where this is a big consideration. A logo design is often drawn twice, one version for “normal” size reproduction and another for small applications such as business cards or tchotchkes.** The small version often uses less detail and/or heavier strokes so as not to appear weak at its intended print size. When I was ordering pens for my own promotional purposes (the one I gave you at the conference!), I had to redraw the logo so it would “read” properly at that tiny size.

When it comes to something like a web ad, as a designer you have to make it so it grabs attention — tricky enough in its own right — and maintains legible detail and looks good. You can’t assess that accurately without viewing it at the size it will actually be when it’s displayed on <random website>, so I can see why it’s a problem. On the other hand, screen resolutions are so variable now that looking at your design on only one device might be misleading in itself. My phone has a Quad-HD resolution, 1.5 times that of my main workstation monitor. The monitor is 30 inches @ 2560×1600, the phone is 5.7 inches @ 3840×2160, my laptop is 17.3 inches @ 1920×1080. The same image viewed in a browser on each device is radically different in size.

That’s why I suggested that the fact InDesign’s “100 Percent” view isn’t pixel-for-pixel accurate is not necessarily something to agonize over.

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** For readers unfamiliar with the wonderfully expressive vocabulary handed down to us by Yiddish-speaking immigrants to America, a “tchotchke” is a small item such as an ornament, usually more decorative than functional. The small promotional items companies hand out are often referred to as tchotchkes. (Microsoft’s giveaway of a Surface Pro 3 to attendees at Adobe MAX this year would not fall into this category, Mac aficionados notwithstanding. but the Adobe Creative Cloud pens would.)