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Started by Mats Broberg
Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35
Numbering bug or what?
Author: Mats Broberg
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:35
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Hi, FM 8.0p277. Can anyone replicate this? 1. Create a book with two files. 2. Insert page number in the header or footer of the master page in each file. 2. On the book level, set pagination for both files to "Double-sided", "First page=Right", "Make page count even". 3. On the book level, set page numbering to start on 1 for the first file and "Continued from previous file" on the second file. Result (on my machine): Second file starts at 2 instead of 3. /Mats
Re: Numbering bug or what?
Author: Art Campbell
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:52
Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2008 12:52
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You don't mention: * Setting the pagination property of each component file to double sided -- they have to have both left and right master pages. * Saving both the book and all files in the book. * And then updating the book... Are you doing those things? Art
Re: Numbering bug or what?
Author: Mats Broberg
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45
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Hi, Yes, I did all those things but the behavior is unpredictable at best. Sometimes the numbering is correct, on other books not. /Mats
Re: Numbering bug or what?
Author: R._VanDyke
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:00
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 16:00
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Mats: Do the chapter files contain custom Master Pages? If yes, are those custom master pages unused? If yes to both questions, try removing unused custom master pages. I had a very similar page-numbering problem with a set of FrameMaker templates designed by a customer that met the aforementioned conditions. Cleaning up the templates by deleting the vestigial custom master pages eliminated what in that case was intermittent page-misnumbering... Cheers & hope this helps, Riley x5633
Re: Numbering bug or what?
Author: Mats Broberg
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:58
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:58
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Hi, Yes, they do, but I'd prefer to keep them as the master page usage is controlled by a script that I apply on the book that looks at certain control characters in the filenames and apply master pages accordingly. /Mats
Re: Numbering bug or what?
Author: Van_Kurtz
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:16
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:16
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Mats, I do double-sided printing and have all the custom master pages, unused and used, saved in each document and have no problems with the numbering. So, I do not know why you are having the problem. I have noticed that when a document has no content on the last page, and I reformat the document with custom master pages, the last (empty) page is deleted. Then when I save the file, an extra page is added at the end to make the page count even, and this last page has the default left master page, not the custom one. So, I have to reformat with the custom master pages again to get that last page correct. That being said, your second file should still begin at page 3, but for some reason, Frame thinks the first file has only one page. I realize that I am not offering a solution, but just suggest that you make sure document 1 does indeed have an even number of pages. I always do my book updating with all the files closed. If you have document 1 open, and do the reformatting as described above, but do not save it before updating, then you might get the results you have. That is, the reformatting causes the last page to be deleted and the updating does not add the extra page to make the count even. I maybe grasping at straws here, but it may be worthwhile to check it out. Van
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