kaiserwilhelm
Well-known member
OK, I am SO excited over what I just did that I have to tell somebody.
Now, to those of you that have been doing this since V 5 (INDD), please do not throw water on my parade.
Plenty of times, we get in 17 x 11 art that has P1 on the left and P3 on the right. Then, the corresponding backs on the next 17 x 11
Well, sometimes our presses and manufacturing plan require us to do a slit nest via right angel fold. Thus, I need P1 on the left and P4 on the right. Also, I need a .25 or .375 inch gutter thrown inbetween.
For years, the solution has been to group everything on a page with a bounding box. Then, slide the pages. Safe, but it screwed up all of my different laser layers. And I have a LOT of those.
Well, enter the "Page Tool"
I remembered that ONLY decent little trick in Quark was that you could put a blank next to a 17 x 11, then tell the page size to be 8.5 x 11...and voila, like magic, you had two separate pages to move around.
So, I messed with "allow pages to shuffle" and "allow spreads to shuffle" and got a "Facing pages" layout. I put in two blanks to the right of each of my good 17 x 11 pages.
I then told the first page on the left to become 8.5. I did the same for the second. The third I told to become .5 inches (all with the Page Tool)
I then shuffled the .5 page inbetween P1 and P2
Finally, I move P3 and P4 where i need them to be
Bingo! A spread that was 17.5 inches. Layers all fine. Life is good. Grand total of 3 minutes?
I can now honestly say that Quark has absolutely nothing on INDD. Before 4pm today, they had this one little trick.
Now, to those of you that have been doing this since V 5 (INDD), please do not throw water on my parade.
Plenty of times, we get in 17 x 11 art that has P1 on the left and P3 on the right. Then, the corresponding backs on the next 17 x 11
Well, sometimes our presses and manufacturing plan require us to do a slit nest via right angel fold. Thus, I need P1 on the left and P4 on the right. Also, I need a .25 or .375 inch gutter thrown inbetween.
For years, the solution has been to group everything on a page with a bounding box. Then, slide the pages. Safe, but it screwed up all of my different laser layers. And I have a LOT of those.
Well, enter the "Page Tool"
I remembered that ONLY decent little trick in Quark was that you could put a blank next to a 17 x 11, then tell the page size to be 8.5 x 11...and voila, like magic, you had two separate pages to move around.
So, I messed with "allow pages to shuffle" and "allow spreads to shuffle" and got a "Facing pages" layout. I put in two blanks to the right of each of my good 17 x 11 pages.
I then told the first page on the left to become 8.5. I did the same for the second. The third I told to become .5 inches (all with the Page Tool)
I then shuffled the .5 page inbetween P1 and P2
Finally, I move P3 and P4 where i need them to be
Bingo! A spread that was 17.5 inches. Layers all fine. Life is good. Grand total of 3 minutes?
I can now honestly say that Quark has absolutely nothing on INDD. Before 4pm today, they had this one little trick.
