Columns order switches when changing left/right pages

[Simon Scheiwiller]

How to reproduce:

1. Open the attached file

2. Ctrl-A to check text flow

3. Add an empty page before the first one.

4. Go to page 2/3 and press Ctrl-A

5. See how the columns order has switched (not only the text flow, even the textbox with the URL has gone from the left column to the right column.

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[MikeTO]

Hi Simon, this is caused by a new feature in 2.6 that is a bit confusing. You need to go to the panel options menu in the Pages panel and deselect Page Move Options > Anchor Toward Spine. This new command is on by default for all documents. You can turn it off for an open document and that choice will be saved with the document, but you'll have to repeat this for any other documents.

This document could also be created with a single text frame divided into three columns which would avoid the issue.

Cheers

[Simon Scheiwiller]

Thank you for helping!

But OMG, this is a terrible "improvement". While I love the possibility of multi-page spreads and can imagine the anchor towards spine setting might be useful for many, I need it to be off for every document I have. That I have to do it manually for every single file I open is just awful. And also, it's terribly well hidden. Even after your post, I had to search for a long time until I found that setting.

The file I posted originated in InDesign long ago. And I can't just use a single text frame divided into columns for all these catalog pages. So this change also makes interoperability worse for people coming from Adobe, like me. When I open an older Finale file in a newer version, it asks me if it should apply new automatic settings (like articulation positioning) or not, this would have been the way to go here.