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Bedazzled532
Bedazzled532
Inspiring
January 21, 2025
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Improper threading of textframes

  • January 21, 2025
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Hi,

I am facing this issue since I have started using Indesign and found no solution to it till date.

 

The textframes sometimes thread perfectly but most of the time they dont. I have attached a 4 mins video of how I am creating a document and threading. Also the problem can be seen.

 

Its an RTL document. Ideally page 1 should be threaded to page 2 but here its threading to page 3. Similarly other pages are haywire.

 

What is the permanent solution this, can anyone please help? Thanks for your time.

 

I have attached idml file also.

Correct answer Bedazzled532

Not being someone who works with right-to-left languages (and not having the ME version installed), but looking at the document setup I think the problem is the file is set up to read right to left, but you've threaded your frames left to right.


Spot on.  I changed the frame to right to left. Changed the threading to RTL and all worked fine.

Thanks

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Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
January 21, 2025

@Bedazzled532 

 

Are you using MENA or a "regular" version?

 

    Peter Spier
    Community Expert
    Peter SpierCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 21, 2025

    Pages panel is showing pages running r-t-l. I don't think that's possible without ME version or scripting.

    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Robert at ID-Tasker
    Legend
    January 21, 2025

    @Peter Spier 

     

    I don't have MENA:

     

     

    Willi Adelberger
    Community Expert
    Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 21, 2025

    Why are you creating so many text frames? You should try to do it in a single frame and use pargraph style means to typeset the text.

    Use primary text frames on thw master/parent.

      Bedazzled532
      Bedazzled532Author
      Inspiring
      January 21, 2025

      If you have seen the video, I have created one more set of textframe which will carry translation of the arabic text. That is the reason I am not creating primary text frame because only 1 primary text frame can exist.

      Secondly, I am attaching one more jpg file. This is how the final output will look like. This I have made using 2 text frames only. You can see the text is not centered properly vertically. Thats the reason why I used so many textframes and it use to work properly.

       

      The grey textframe will again contain text. 

      Peter Spier
      Community Expert
      Peter SpierCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      January 21, 2025

      Not being someone who works with right-to-left languages (and not having the ME version installed), but looking at the document setup I think the problem is the file is set up to read right to left, but you've threaded your frames left to right.

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