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Vertical spacing between pages.

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December 26, 2024
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Is there any way for 2 or more pages to be visually joined and not vertically separated?

In the pasteboard I already reduced the vertical space to zero, and it is certainly at zero, but even so, there is separation, and I require the pages to be together because they have a background image that appears cut off when going to the Presentation mode, and also when sharing the file for review, the image is cut off because it goes from page to page, and the final file is supposed to look together, continuous.

The attached images serve only as a sample of the actual file, which is composed of almost 20 pages containing background vector images, generated in Illustrator and linked in InDesign, so that when going to Preview within the software or send the link, almost 20 cuts appear, which also generate a break in the concept, reading, focus etc ....

I thought of generating in both Illustrator and InDesign a single file with the dimensions of the almost 20 pages, but Illustrator does not have that work area, so there would still be cuts.

So... is there any configuration to eliminate that space between page and page so that in Preview, both inside and outside InDesign the file is viewed continuously?

Notes:

1-) The document I am working on, is not for printing, it is for preview only, and does not have the Facing Pages option active.
2-) I have read in the forum some similar questions, as well as their corresponding answers, but what is asked here is different.

Thank you!

Correct answer Robert at ID-Tasker

I will look into that option, thank you.

And as for the annotations: I guess these could be done by the client through Share for review of ID, although there the pages appear split, I would have the continuous reference on the other page, it is not a serious issue.

Exactly.

Preview on Behance - or even your own website - it's just a bunch of images - and notes through Share for Review.

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @e ch n ,

in an ordinary InDesign spread you can have up to 10 pages you can move with the Page tool like you want. You can even overlap pages. Well, if I get you right, you need one single spread with 20 pages. That's not doable. Not with a current version of InDesign.

It was possible, but only with some scripting tricks and with a very old version of InDesign about 13 years ago.

Version 7.5 when I recall that right… So, if you find someone with a running version of InDesign 7.5 ( CS 5.5 ) you can start out with the following setup of a document (here depicted from InDesign 2025) where there are two spreads with differntly sized pages like that:

When with InDesign CS 5.5 you will be able to run the script code below without any error. It will add a number of pages in the first spread regradless of the limit of 10 pages per spread.

var d=app.documents[0];
var numberOfPagesToAddInFirstSpread = 19;
var firstPage = d.pages[0];

for(var n=0; n<numberOfPagesToAddInFirstSpread; n++)
{
    var lastPage = d.pages[-1];
    try{
    lastPage.duplicate(LocationOptions.AFTER,firstPage);
    }catch(e){};
};

So with the document above and the code above you will end up with 20 pages in the first spread. 20 pages you can arrange horizontally and vertically like you want with the Page tool.

Unfortunately I cannot provide a document with 20 pages in one spread but I have access with 16 pages in one spread to proof my point. See my attached InDesign document that was initially set up with InDesign CS 5.5 and now was opened and saved with InDesign 2025: 16Added-PagesRearranged_INDD-2025.indd

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

16Added-PagesRearranged_INDD-2025.zip

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

@Laubender

Just run your script in CS5.5 - then tried to add a new page using Create New Page icon:

But I'm doing this on Windows?

L

Laubender

Community Expert

Hi @Robert at ID-Tasker ,

to run this script successfully you need to start with a document with a second spread with one different sized page.

Regards,
Uwe Laubender
( Adobe Community Expert )

James Gifford—NitroPress

Legend

To me, the takeaway here is a problem that's becoming increasingly common as media formats blur: choosing a goal that requires a specific platform or host, and then attempting to create it using a different platform, no support platform at all or tools that don't export to that platform.

That is, there is a growing sense that any platform with a display screen can handle animation, interactive elements, forms, mini-games or just continuous page scrolling. That's not even close to being true, as users who try to build very elaborate interactive PDFs find, and those who don't realize that all the cool features are based on the host/platform/device, not on a document.

The starting point here was to find a platform or display method that supported very long page continuous scrolling... and then work backward to what tools could create that content.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

@James Gifford—NitroPress

In the end - it's perfectly doable in InDesign. It's just OP misread the Behance's specification.

Luke Jennings3

Community Expert

It might be helpful to create a new artboard in your Illustrator file to the maximum size (200 inches?) which encompases or replaces the existing multiple artboards. If this is still too small, reduce the size of the illustration until it fits, if it's all vector, this shouldn't be an issue. Place the Illustrator file into the single page InDesign file and enlarge.

Also, In Acrobat, you can set the document properties of a multi-page pdf to show as a continuous page, File> Properties (assuming the pdf will be viewed in Acrobat or Reader and the user's preferences are not set to override the document properties). The gap between pages can be removed using the Acrobat page display settings (View> Page Display), however this cannot be set using the document properties and Acrobat will show a dashed line where the pages meet.

Peter Kahrel

Community Expert

Increase the page height, won't that work? You can set the page height to up to 5 metres (5,486 mm, to be almost precise).

e ch nAuthor

Inspiring

Thank you @Peter Kahrel

I will do that, which will possibly result in what I lay out to Robert in the last paragraph of my reply... although I'm not sure if that will happen... Either way, what I want to do, is what I lay out in that reply.

Thanks for providing an alternative, I appreciate it.

Robert at ID-Tasker

Legend

https://community.adobe.com/t5/indesign-discussions/how-do-i-make-my-pages-go-below-one-another-in-a-spread-format/td-p/15046253

If pages won't be on the same spread - they'll always be separated outside of InDesign.