Publishing Online: Reversed order of the pages

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December 16, 2022
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Hello Everyone,

I am working on editing a document that I already published online and edited a few times.

Last time I published, after literally chaning a comma, the order of the page got reversed, if you click on the right arrows it brings you to the previous page instead of the next and also looking at the Toggle Thumbnails the order of the page is reversed from the last page to the cover.

Does anyone know how to fix it? Thanks in advance!

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L

Laubender

Community Expert

And if I try to do Publish Online with your fixed document I get a blue bar message like that:

No idea why. And what is meant with "Annotations" in the message.

Translated to English it says:

"Change Screen Mode to Normal to see the annotations in the layout"
Button with: "Change Screen Mode"

The German message is:

"Wechseln Sie zum normalen Bildschirmmodus, um die Anmerkungen im Layout anzuzeigen"
Button with: "Bildschirmmodus wechseln"

It only pops up for one time.

After clicking the button it did not get up again.

Any ideas?

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @ChiaraVi ,

if this is going wrong with all your documents, also new ones, could you attach a simple sample document where you see the issue so that we can test on our ends?

Thanks,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

ChiaraViAuthor

Participant

Thank you everyone for your help!

Here attached a sample document with the related link published. As you can see, the page order is reversed (image attached), the arrow appears on the left and not on the right.

Thanks in advance!
Chiara

Community Expert

Hi @ChiaraVi ,

I opened your InDesign document and it turned out that this a document where the flowing of pages is in the order you usually need for Hebrew or Arabic publications. One can proof this if you change the document's setup to facing-pages and then add some pages. Especially look into the second spread where the order of pages is right to left.

From my German InDesign 2023 on Windows where "Doppelseite" means "Facing Pages":

Technically spoken, the page binding options of the document are set to RIGHT_TO_LEFT.

We could change that with one line of ExtendScript (JavaScript) code running on the open and active document:

app.documents[0].documentPreferences.pageBinding = PageBindingOptions.LEFT_TO_RIGHT;

I ran that code on your document and the document is fixed now.

See the attached fixed InDesign file:

test-PageBinding-LEFT_TO_RIGHT.indd

Look up how to save ExtendScript code to a text file with suffix *.jsx and to install the script file so that you can use it with InDesign's Scripts panel:

https://www.indiscripts.com/pages/help#hd0sb2

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

test-PageBinding-LEFT_TO_RIGHT.zip