Advanced Page Management: Page Migration Improvements

[Patrick Connor]

10 minutes ago, bbrother said:

It would be worth considering disabling `Anchor Toward Spine` by default or allow user to do so, so that the behavior is more in line with what it was before, which I agree with.

to some extent I think it is worth deliberately exposing new functionality like this to beta testers in order to more thoroughly soak test the change. Beta testers can tend to push things to their limits, but by having a change too hidden I think it may be completely overlooked. In other words I am not against the default being different for release, but I personally appreciate the extra testing that something like this gets by being default on in the beta.

[bbrother]

36 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

I am not against the default being different for release, but I personally appreciate the extra testing that something like this gets by being default on in the beta.

I'm glad you don't close yourself off to other possibilities when it comes to choosing "on" or "off" by default.👍

[Mark Daniel]

8 minutes ago, anto said:

If I have a page master with vertical stripes on the sides, then when I add the first page, the design breaks. In what cases can this be used? Without a master page?

Which Master Migration option have you got set? Looks it might be 'Split Masters'? Try 'Move Master Content' 

Mark

[Mark Daniel]

I think you're going to have to send me the file. It works fine here with my test file.

Example.afpub

Mark

[Mark Daniel]

Oh, I've just realised what it is - You have single page masters so they just get moved onto the 'wrong' side with the bars on them. Try with a facing page master.

[Patrick Connor]

3 hours ago, anto said:

and not a single word about what parameters it works with and what the consequences might be

<Mod Edit> Your post was originally made in a different thread but has now been moved to the thread where Anchor Towards Spine" is described, so the rest of this post is now superfluous. If you wish to hide your post I can hide my response</Mod Edit>

See here for the reflow/page migration option "Anchor Towards Spine" specifically

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Anchor toward spine

When a page element moves from one side of the spine to the other (either a page object or a master object that is being moved via Move Master Content) controls whether it maintains its absolute position on the page or its distance from the spine.

If your margins are symmetrical about the spine but different for inner and outer, ‘Anchor toward spine’ is more likely to keep things glued to the margins. However, objects aligned to an outer page edge may unexpectedly move to align to the opposite edge. This can be avoided by pinning the object.

 

[Patrick Connor]

@anto @bbrother  @Hangman and @Mark Daniel

I have split this Anchor to Spine discussion into the best thread for it, hope that is OK.

There was so much work on the pages that I split the announcement into 4 threads/areas to try to avoid the problem of having just one "Multiple Pages and other Page management Improvements" super thread. As a consequence it is possible to miss some of the related changes. I have now rewritten the first post in each of the 4 threads to mention the other ones.

[bbrother]

3 minutes ago, Patrick Connor said:

I have split this Anchor to Spine discussion into the best thread for it, hope that is OK.

No problem. I also think it will be better this way.👍

[MikeTO]

On 11/2/2024 at 4:01 PM, MikeTO said:

I imagine these menu command tooltips are placeholders but the tooltip for Reflow Pages has some wording issues.

The tooltip for Move Master Content uses objects and elements for the same purpose:

The tooltip for Reapply Masters refers to the "Apply Master Migrate rules" which might need an explanation:

The tooltip for Anchor Toward Spin has a blank line at its end and shouldn't use "we":

I'm just flagging that these typos and issues still exist in RC3