Add Pages from File - Results

[Piers]

I tried the 'Add Pages from File' facility in order to combine separate parts of my book. It did not go well. The added pages scattered themselves at the end of the existing file out of order and created blank pages. There were links that missed pages and there was a continuing overflow symbol that repeated flows into more and more pages. I have tried deleting the extra pages but the text reappears elsewhere. I've tried deleting the extra frames too but that creates a blank page and shifts the overflow to somewhere else. 

I wondered if there was a way to expose the whole content lurking in the file, or a way to reset the overflow process without losing the content of formatting. 

[GarryP]

Would you be able to:

• share two documents (one ‘recipient’ and one ‘donor’) which exhibit this behaviour, and;
• give us a screenshot of the “Add Pages” dialog settings that you used before you pressed OK in that dialog?

Once we can see what’s happening, and are able to examine the documents, we should be in a better situation to diagnose the problem.

[Piers]

1 hour ago, GarryP said:

Would you be able to:

• share two documents (one ‘recipient’ and one ‘donor’) which exhibit this behaviour, and;
• give us a screenshot of the “Add Pages” dialog settings that you used before you pressed OK in that dialog?

Once we can see what’s happening, and are able to examine the documents, we should be in a better situation to diagnose the problem.

Thanks for your response. I'm sorry but I've been playing with the recipient file since I posted the message and I seem to have got rid of the problem by deleting the blank files and moving the out of order ones into the correct order. I did notice some of the pages were linked but with a number of blank pages in between that weren't linked. I also noticed that bits of text got chopped up. I will try again with a new version of the files.

[GarryP]

It would have been nice to be able to see the problem ‘in action’, but it’s good to know that you’ve managed to get round it.

Pages getting “scattered” out of order doesn’t sound like something that should be happening, but I don’t use that functionality much so I don’t know what to expect in all usual circumstances.

If you find it happening again, fingers crossed that you don’t, then sharing the things I asked for earlier might help us to work out what’s going on.

[Piers]

Here I go again - another crash. I did not try to reinsert a file, I just worked on the remaining one. The file is the third version of this since the original share was put together. It is now on its second crash of the day. I lost all the endnotes in the first crash so I went to the backup to resume but it soon crashed again.

I though I'd stripped out all the spurious links but there is something going on. I have attached the file. It was 75 pages but the crash has taken it to 107 pages and a whole lot of text has gone. The links have gone all over the place. Most of the graphics are floating as the process of repairing the file was made difficult when they were pinned to their captions. 

I would appreciate any advice.

Thank you, 

Piers

LU Signalling History Book Revised Chapters v1 crash.afpub

[GarryP]

In order to try and see the problem we need a replicable workflow that causes the problem.

If that document is the ‘before’ situation, what am I supposed to be doing with it to cause the problem?

If that document is the ‘after’ situation, how do I know what the problem is without knowing what the ‘before’ situation was?

You say that “a whole lot of text has gone” but we don’t know where it has gone from.
You say that “the links have gone all over the place” but we don’t know where they were to start with.

If we don’t know exactly what the ‘before’ situation was, and what your intent was, and exactly what you did, and your expectations of doing what you did, and the ‘after’ situation, it’s going to be difficult to give specific advice.

[Piers]

On 11/9/2024 at 8:38 AM, GarryP said:

In order to try and see the problem we need a replicable workflow that causes the problem.

If that document is the ‘before’ situation, what am I supposed to be doing with it to cause the problem?

If that document is the ‘after’ situation, how do I know what the problem is without knowing what the ‘before’ situation was?

You say that “a whole lot of text has gone” but we don’t know where it has gone from.
You say that “the links have gone all over the place” but we don’t know where they were to start with.

If we don’t know exactly what the ‘before’ situation was, and what your intent was, and exactly what you did, and your expectations of doing what you did, and the ‘after’ situation, it’s going to be difficult to give specific advice.

On 11/7/2024 at 8:05 AM, carl123 said:

It appears whenever you have Enable Transform Origin selected in the context toolbar

You can switch it off there, if it is not needed

Sorry, I can't replicate the issue now.