About using master pages, books, and moving contents or pages of the book

[Peqpantx]

Good afternoon
On iPad. Using masters pages for an entire document.
Frames linked to each other.
Suddenly, I don't know why, some links are changed. They go from one that was placed to another on another page (example: page 1 to 2, 2 to 3 changes to page 1 to 2, 2 to 15), or even from a frame to a text box with the page number.
How do I remove that link?

[Peqpantx]

Good afternoon:

On iPad, Publisher. Working with master pages How can I move the content of one page (including images) to a different page. Example: All content from page 12 to page 100, leaving page 12 blank and page 100 as page 12 was.
And, in the same program, can I delete a page from just one spread? Example, spread with pages 2 and 3. I want to delete page 2, so that the new 2 is the old 3, the new 3 is the old 4...

[MikeTO]

It depends on how you have structured your document pages and master pages.

Let's take the example of page 2 based on Master A. The main text frame isn't linked to a previous or next frame but the frame is inherited from the master. There's a picture in a frame that I also want to copy but the frame is also on the master. I can't select the text or picture frames on page 1 because they're master frames. The solution is to duplicate page 2 and then move the page where you want it.

Now let's assume that the main text frame on page 2 is linked from page 1 and to page 3. I can duplicate page 2, but the new page's frame won't have any text in it. This is because the story text (the text in the series of linked frames) belongs to the frame on page 1 and not to the frame on page 2. After duplicating the page I would need to copy the text from the frame on page 2 and paste it into the duplicate page's frame.

How do the links get messed up as you asked in your original post? Usually this is because you've reordered your pages. Let's take the example of page 1 linked to 2 linked to 3. You later decide that the text on page 3 should be before 2 so move the page. This results in page 1 being linked to page 3 (the former page 2) which is linked to page 2 (the former page 3). To fix this, you must break the links between the frames and then re-link the frames. But when you're done you'll be back to where you started because reordering pages with linked text isn't useful. To move the text from page 3 to before the text on page 2 you must copy and paste the text, not reorder the pages.

You can learn more about linking and unlinking text frames on this help page: https://affinity.help/publisher2ipad/English.lproj/contents.xml?page=pages/Text/linkingTextFrames.html&title=Linking text frames

There's more information in my Publisher manual but it provides instructions only for the desktop interface, the iPad interface is a bit different.

Cheers

[MikeTO]

FYI here is the help page for adding, moving, duplicating, and deleting pages on an iPad: https://affinity.help/publisher2ipad/English.lproj/contents.xml?page=pages/Panels/pagesPanel.html&title=Pages panel

You can mess up a facing-pages document if you insert or delete a single page instead of inserting and deleting entire spreads. While Publisher will do as you ask, sometimes facing-page elements can be misplaced. if this happens, try re-applying the master page to the entire spread.

Good luck.

[Peqpantx]

Thank you very much.

I will study your amazing guide