Chapter Page Numbers wrong after Exporting a Book (Split)

[Ian Tindale]

My book has “chapters” for each article in the magazine (they’re not chapters, they’re articles)

The numbering was all perfect, exactly where they should be on the flatplan 

This morning I exported a test pdf to show someone something

It entirely buggered up the numbering of most chapters, leaving them numbered 1-2, 1-4, etc which is thoroughly useless

They were where I wanted them, now they’re not

This is utterly useless

[walt.farrell]

3 hours ago, Ian Tindale said:

It entirely buggered up the numbering of most chapters, leaving them numbered 1-2, 1-4, etc which is thoroughly useless

I haven't experienced that, but you probably have a more complex file than I've tried.

Can you provide more info, such as a screenshot of the Book panel? 

What Synchronization options do you have set for the Book?

Can you provide a zip of the .afbook and at least the first few .afpub files, enough to show the issue? Or would that require a private upload link from one of the Moderators?

[Ian Tindale]

31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I haven't experienced that, but you probably have a more complex file than I've tried.

Can you provide more info, such as a screenshot of the Book panel? 

What Synchronization options do you have set for the Book?

Can you provide a zip of the .afbook and at least the first few .afpub files, enough to show the issue? Or would that require a private upload link from one of the Moderators?

I’ll give it a go, I’m busy with other aspects of the mag at the moment

Essentially now I examine it further, I would say the disaster is occurring not at the book itself (but the book makes it happen) but really at the individual article’s own “pages” > “section manager” thing, where if you click “start page numbering at” and then put a number in, most times it’ll ignore you and occasionally it’ll work, when the articles are opened and their page numbering modified from within the book – and even then there’s a good chance it’ll dump it back to the 1-2 or whatever the article’s page number is (this is a point – there’s no clear distinction between the folio that I want to use, which is referred to as the page number, or the number of the page within the article, first, second, etc, which is also referred to as the page number – same term, two different uses, but it hardly matters because typing in a folio number to start from rarely works anyway)

Here’s a very quick video I just screenshotted, I knocked the display res down to make a smaller vid, I opened up a book (which I spend a lot of time on yesterday to get the folios to be where they are on the flatplan – a lot of time because it kept ignoring me and resetting and infuriating me), having opened the book you see most of it has folios that start where they should be in the mag (except for the final couple, for some reason) – then I took my hands off and sat back for a few seconds and watched it just destroy all that work by resetting most of the articles to have folios like 1-2, 1-4, 1-6 etc which is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE

What’s more, book menu’s ‘update numbers’ > ‘update page numbers automatically’ is turned OFF!

[walt.farrell]

2 hours ago, Ian Tindale said:

but really at the individual article’s own “pages” > “section manager” thing, where if you click “start page numbering at” and then put a number in, most times it’ll ignore you and occasionally it’ll work, when the articles are opened and their page numbering modified from within the book – and even then there’s a good chance it’ll dump it back to the 1-2 or whatever the article’s page number is (this is a point – there’s no clear distinction between the folio that I want to use, which is referred to as the page number, or the number of the page within the article, first, second, etc, which is also referred to as the page number – same term, two different uses, but it hardly matters because typing in a folio number to start from rarely works anyway)

Thanks.

I'm still not sure what you're doing, but I would suggest that you should not be using the Section Manager in the chapter files to set the starting page number of the chapter. That should be determined based on the ending page number of the previous chapter.

So I would first look at what you're doing in there, and why, and see if you're perhaps interfering with the normal processing that would do exactly what you need.

 

2 hours ago, Ian Tindale said:

then I took my hands off and sat back for a few seconds and watched it just destroy all that work by resetting most of the articles to have folios like 1-2, 1-4, 1-6 etc which is TOTALLY UNACCEPTABLE

That does seem odd.

 

[MikeTO]

8 hours ago, Ian Tindale said:

Essentially now I examine it further, I would say the disaster is occurring not at the book itself (but the book makes it happen) but really at the individual article’s own “pages” > “section manager” thing, where if you click “start page numbering at” and then put a number in, most times it’ll ignore you and occasionally it’ll work, when the articles are opened and their page numbering modified from within the book – and even then there’s a good chance it’ll dump it back to the 1-2 or whatever the article’s page number is (this is a point – there’s no clear distinction between the folio that I want to use, which is referred to as the page number, or the number of the page within the article, first, second, etc, which is also referred to as the page number – same term, two different uses, but it hardly matters because typing in a folio number to start from rarely works anyway)

I realize you're on Windows but on macOS it's impossible to use Section Manager to change the starting page number for a chapter in a Book. It should work but it doesn't do anything at this time and the issue has been logged. You have to use Page Number Options in the Books panel menu to do that for now.