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sarapia777
Inspiring
February 16, 2023
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InDesign Printing Wrong Page

  • February 16, 2023
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Greetings.

I am printing a 104p book, 6x9, double sided, no facing pages (book will be spiral bound). Yesterday I successfully printed one book. Today, I tried to make a second copy, printed all odd pages, but when attempting to print the even pages, Indesign insists on beginning on P4 rather than on P2. P2 is blank and I have "print blank pages" checked but it insists on printing P4 on the back of P1. I thought I could work around it by printing pp 1-3 manually and starting the printing with P4, but now - guess what - it's printing P4, then P8. 

I am not using the "print booklet" option, by the way. 

I have deleted my print presets a couple times, also rebooted computer, InDesign is up to date.

I don't understand why it worked perfectly yesterday but not today.

Going nuts. At it for hours now.

What am I missing? 

Thank you.

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Correct answer Peter Spier
I added white text. Didn't work.

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Try putting a text frame out in the pasteboard area at the top of the page, but deep enough that it runs onto the printable area, and put a current page number marker (in black) in it, top aligned so the text itself is on the pastebaord, but the frame is still on the page. You could do this on the Parent/Master page.

That seems to work here -- printing to PDF with print blank pages deselected still gave me 106 pages

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Peter Spier
Community Expert
Peter SpierCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 16, 2023

Did you change from logical to absoulte page numbering (or vice versa), perhaps? Is there a new section start involved?

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
February 16, 2023

A screen shot of the first dozen or so pages in the Pages pane would help here.

 

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sarapia777Author
Inspiring
February 16, 2023

how can I take a screen shot of all those pages?

Robert at ID-Tasker
Robert at ID-Tasker
Legend
February 16, 2023

Make PDF and print from Acrobat? 

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
February 16, 2023

Complete hack and neither an answer nor a solution, but... put a text frame with some text set to White or None on P2. That might bypass whatever faulty logic is at work while better answers and such come along.

 

Wait... "no facing pages." I believe 'facing pages' does quite a few things with document structure, more than just give you page pairs in the Pages pane. What you have, and what you want, is facing pages, structurally. You don't need to have mirrored margins or layout or spread contents or anything, but you do need to tell ID that the output is for even/odd facing pages.

 

Switch on Facing Pages, touch up any layout issues, and try again.

 

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sarapia777Author
Inspiring
February 16, 2023

Yes, except it worked perfectly yesterday (as it should have) while set up as I described above.

When I select facing pages the numbering doesn't make sense at all. 

P1 - single page

P3 - double page

etc. 

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
Legend
February 16, 2023

This doesn't make any sense, though. I suggest you have some structural/setup flaw in your document that is causing the problem, but wasn't 'broken' yesterday. Possibly something as simple as closing and reopening the doc caused page order to become scrambled.

 

The difference between facing pages and no facing pages is, fundamentally speaking, just how ID displays pages in spreads. (Although I still suspect more complex things are happening under the hood, those should be all but invisible in most projects.)

 

If you have 104 pages that are to print on 52 sheets of paper, you have facing pages. There is no reason to use single-page layout. If you are seeing wonky page numbering, it's in your Parent page setup etc., not something fundamental in ID.

 

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