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James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPress
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April 14, 2023
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Updating parent page assignment?

  • April 14, 2023
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I have a little book I update over time, then publish a new edition once or twice a year. Because of the structure, some additions push pages forward, leaving the alphabetical section headings adrift from their parent page assignment. (All pages have a top header, except the fore matter and these section pages.)

 

So with every edition, I have to go through the tedious process of going spread by spread, updating which pages are A and which are B, with tedious drag and drop of the appropriate parent page on each.

 

I know there have been discussions of this, and I think I would retain the information if so, but — am I missing any simpler method for doing this update? Anything that, with a page selected, would apply A or B without the fussy drag and drop?

 

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Willi Adelberger
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Willi AdelbergerCommunity Expert
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April 14, 2023

Divide the document in different INDD. Expanding a chapter pushes away the next doument, but the assigned master/parent will not change, only the page number will.

 

James Gifford—NitroPress
James Gifford—NitroPressAuthor
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April 14, 2023

That's the textbook solution, but this is a short book (~150 pages) and the chapters (alphabetical sections) are 1-4 pages. It would be hours of work and make it difficult to do the breezy little ongoing updates. Thanks, though.

 

I'm thinking maybe a script to find all chapter heads and set that page to B Parent, having first set all pages to A Parent, might be the only really workable option.

 

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