Distill7

Thanks for your time and effort. The decoration/rule above solution is great. As for the chapter graphics thing, I also found that if you link the graphic instead of embedding it. Then you can make any changes to that file and all instances will update. While your solution is the best workaround so far, I'd still love an option to trigger a certain master page when a paragraph style or a section break is present if they can implement it of course, because it's quicker, cleaner, and might give you more creative options.

I have tried and it works even though the text and the white box are exported. The only problem with this technique is that it's very time consuming especially if I want to add a graphic to the chapters openers in addition to removing the headers.

Another question for anybody, is there a way to select all pages that have a certain paragraph style. This way if I can select all pages that the chapter paragraph style I can select them all and apply [chapter master]. It's not fully automatic, but it's better than selecting them one by one.

Having multiple paragraph styles with master page override on the same page is really problematic, but that can be solved by finding a mechanism of priority or an error message. If the designer makes his design to avoid such problems would be fine. What I meant when I said that triggering a certain master page at section break won't work, is let's assum we have: [Body Master] : with running head and page numbers for full-text pages; [Chapter Master] : with page numbers only fur chapter openers; [Blank Master] : with nothing on it, I apply it to front matter pages and other purposes like full photos... Now the problem with a section break, is that sometimes I need to use the [Blank Master] page, and sometimes I'll need to use the [chapter master] page. A feature to trigger only one master page at every section break won't really work.

You can already set a paragraph style to create a page break. In the paragraph style options: Flow: You can set it to start on: Next page, next odd page, or next even page. This will automatically move the chapter text to a new page. However, you can't apply a master page to it. I don't think you can apply a specific master page at section break or any other break at the moment. But creating this feature for a paragraph style would be better, for example you can create breaks for empty pages to place images on them where you won't need pages numbers. It's better to choose it in the paragraph style rather than one size for all.

That's a very smart idea, however I'm wondering if the white rule and the text will be still exported to the pdf file. I'm worried if that might cause some problems for printers.

Preparing each chapter in a different file won't give you a lot of control over the styling of the book, especially if there are special tweaks here and there. The ability to see the document as a whole is way better.

Please add a feature that allows overriding the master page choice if there is a specific paragraph style in that page. A use case scenario for this is: in books interior. we need a master page (Body) for the main matter, usually, it has running head + folio (page numbers). We use a different master page (chapter) for the 1st page of each new chapter, it has folio, NO RUNNING HEAD, plus or minus some graphics. If we apply the (chapter) master page to each chapter opening page, let's say page 8 for chapter 2, then I make the font size bigger, which pushes the chapter 2 opening page to page no 9, but the (chapter) master page is still applied to page 8. Which means now I'll have to apply (chapter) master page to page 9, and apply the (body) master page to page 8 too. Now imagine if you have a book of 50 chapters, everytime you make some tweaks that changes the pages order, like font size, tracking, lining, add or remove pages and so one, you'll have to apply those master pages 50x2=100 times, which is a very time consuming task. If you implement this feature it would be of great help.