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Hello all,

I have created lots of books with a two-page layout (images on the left pages, text on the right). This layout was originally developed in the 1960s and is excellent for the machinery business but hardly used anywhere else. I have created all my documents with two flows, one connecting all the left pages where images and captions are placed, and one connecting all the right pages where the text goes. As FM does not support this two-page layout, I have to manually add pages and connect the frames when the chapter gets longer.

Of course I would like to convert everything to Structured FrameMaker, but even unstructured FM does not support the two-page layout, and I don't want to start using structured FM in docs that have two independent sets of frames - it would defeat the purpose of converting to structured FM.

My question is: is there anyone out there who has done some work on two-page layouts using an EDD that emulates this layout in a single flow ? The EDD would have to force images to the left pages and text to the right pages as much as possible. If there are restrictions or special instructions required for the author, that is not a big deal. I am researching the possibility to create this type of EDD, so any suggestions would be welcome.

Thanks for any suggestions

Jangli