Pulisher 2 - Book: Page numbering

[Welsbach]

I want to have a book with several chapters. Every chapter shall begin on a right side (uneven number). But some files end on a right (uneven) page, so that the book feature should add a page before beginning the chapter. With InDesign this is very easy. With AP it seems quite complicated. In the most cases AP inserts three pages where one is enough. It seems there is no option to change this. I this because the highly acclaimed book feature isn’t ready yet? Or what can I do to make it useable?

EDIT: The question is obsolete now. I forgot that the book feature can’t synchronize Master Pages. So when I change the master page in one file I must do this in every page. This means the book feature is useless. 

[MikeTO]

Please see the detailed description I wrote for the Books feature in the free manual I've uploaded. I described all the stray page scenarios with examples. You can download it from this forum at the link in my signature.

[Welsbach]

Thank you for the manual. I downloaded and saved it, because it may be useful for other cases. I looked to the section about stray pages and found, that it is described as I expected the feature to work. The problem is just that it doesn't. If one chapter ends on the right side, AP adds sometime one page (as expected) but much more often 3. I saw even 5. In this case I have to go in every chapter to the section manager and set the first page number to 0. This helps sometimes, but no always.

Anyway I don’t user AP yet for serious projects, I play just a little bit when I have time, so I can test it and see when the time has come to use it (if it ever comes).

The fact that the sync feature with books doubles the master pages and the pasting of formatted text (from other Publisher files or from Word etc.) doubles the text styles anyway shows that it is still. long way. 

[MikeTO]

1 hour ago, Welsbach said:

If one chapter ends on the right side, AP adds sometime one page (as expected) but much more often 3. I saw even 5. In this case I have to go in every chapter to the section manager and set the first page number to 0. This helps sometimes, but no always.

Can you share a test book and chapters in which this occurs? It's not supposed to be possible for it to add more than 1 page so I'm unsure what's happening with your document.

I've attached a test book that has 2 chapters of 3 pages, both start on the right and the first ends on the right. I exported them with merge on, pad on, merge and pad on, and merge and pad off, but didn't see anything unusual.

Archive.zip

[Welsbach]

I'm sorry, I can’t. But it doesn’t matter. The book feature is useless because the synchronization is no synchronization. When I work on a book with several hundred pages, it may happen very well that I see on the way that I have to modify a master page. If I have to do this modification in thirty or more files one by one, the feature is useless. Now I can import alle these files in one big file. This is not very good, but it could work.  – It doesn’t, because after importing the files I have all text and character styles thirty times.

It’s all the same: I work more on finding workarounds for the heavy limitations of AP as on my files. This makes no sense. So  stay with InDesign until AP is ready for usw.

Thank you for trying to help me. For the time being nobody but the developers can help. May be the time comes, when some of them try to use their program and find out there elementary faults. 

 

[Dan C]

If you are able and would like, we can take a look at your document directly (or a sample of) with a description of how to recreate your issue.

https://www.dropbox.com/request/XJT8BccjKBMDHXFrq3tf

Lee

[Welsbach]

I can’t give the document or part f it to other persons. And it has no sense, because the book feature is in every case useless because of the dysfunctional sync feature. So a solution for the page numbering problem wouldn't help me.