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September 17, 2019 at 8:48 pm in reply to: Synchronize book causing creating non-primary text frames #14324105
Brad Grigor
MemberThat was it, David! I unchecked the “Other” category in Synchronize Options and then did a full Synchronize Book without anything blowing up!
Thanks so much again for your help!
Cheers!
Brad
September 17, 2019 at 4:52 pm in reply to: Synchronize book causing creating non-primary text frames #14324106MemberWIll give it try David. And thanks so much!
September 17, 2019 at 2:45 pm in reply to: Synchronize book causing creating non-primary text frames #14324109MemberJust tried 3 documents. Even using the Book panel menu Synchronize Selected Documents mangled up one of the documents. I’m thinking there must be some corruption in the documents and I should launder them through IDML.
September 17, 2019 at 2:18 pm in reply to: Synchronize book causing creating non-primary text frames #14324110MemberOh, and the document gets mangled even without a left/right page switch.
September 17, 2019 at 2:17 pm in reply to: Synchronize book causing creating non-primary text frames #14324111MemberHere’s an update. I’ve been plodding through the book, synchronizing only two documents at a time. If I select two documents (one of which is the style master) and choose “Synchronize Selected Documents” from the Book panel menu, everything seems to work as expected. However, if I click the “-><-” icon at the bottom of the Book panel, the non-style master document gets mangled as I mentioned above.
September 17, 2019 at 1:11 pm in reply to: Synchronize book causing creating non-primary text frames #14324113MemberHi, David. Thanks so much for responding. At first, I thought it was a left/right switching issue. But even if that was it, I wouldn’t expect the results I am getting.
I reviewed the links you provided on primary text frames and I think I have this set up correctly, as follows:
– “A-Book Page” master spread has 6 text frames. The headers and footers are regular text frames. The two content frames are empty primary text frames, threaded across the spread.
– “B-Chapter Page” master spread is based on the “A” master with the headers deleted. There are only two text frames which are primary text frames, threaded across the spread.
– “C-No header, no footer” master spread is based on the “A” master with the both headers and footers deleted. There are only two text frames which are primary text frames, threaded across the spread.
On the “B” and “C” masters, the primary text frames are “live” on those masters, i.e. not inherited from the “A” master. I wonder if this could be the problem?
Cheers!
Brad
November 24, 2017 at 11:54 pm in reply to: Change single quotes to apostrophes in contractions #99876MemberHi, Lindsey. Yes, I do that sometimes, not always (it depends on how “ugly” the source document is). It requires a secret Ctrl-Z trick (or the Insert > Symbols menu) to force an apostrophe in Word so writers tend not to do it (or certainly not consistently). I don’t think “Use Typographer’s Quotes” can sort that out.
February 6, 2014 at 1:25 pm in reply to: InDesign Books and fixed paths to associated documents. #66998MemberThis issue that the indb file has fixed paths and there is no one-step re-link feature hits me several times a year. Do you know if anyone has written a script that does the job of re-linking the indb to the new document location?
And David, I agree with your issue re: saving versions of book documents. I also like to keep versions of the documents and of the indb file. The “replace document” function handles this situation, but seems clunky. It would be handy if renaming a document while the indb is also open would replace the document in the indb.
Cheers!
January 10, 2014 at 2:31 pm in reply to: Getting a Master to track the text, not the page number #66631MemberThanks David. Since I have just upgraded to CS6, I must investigate Primary Text Frames. And I’ll check out Auto Flow Pro as well.
Cheers!
Brad
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