Help with Master pages

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January 30, 2020
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I have a document which will be produced as a perfect bound book and I must submit the pages as single pages, not facing. When I do that the page numbers appear all on one side instead of alternating left and right although I created them on a facing page Master. Is there any way to fix this?

Thanks,

Bill

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SJRiegel

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David Blatner shows me how to break apart the spreads and the page numbers remain in the correct position, but when I Export to PDF it reverts to all the page numbers on the same side (left).

Can you provide screen shots of your InDesign document (including pages panel), and of the PDF with the wrong page numbers?

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billc39342428Author

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Here is my problem: David Blatner shows me how to break apart the spreads and the page numbers remain in the correct position, but when I Export to PDF it reverts to all the page numbers on the same side (left). However, I can break apart the spreads in the document setup box, but the same thing happens. In perfect bound books the page numbers should be odd # on right and even # on left, or however they are set up.

Sorry to trouble you with this,

Bill

rob day

Community Expert

If you want a facing view of single pages in Acrobat, set the Viewing> Layout in the General tab to Two-up Continuous (Cover Page):

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billc39342428Author

Participant

Thanks Rob,

However, I do not find that continuous (cover page) in my Export page.

Here is my problem: David Blatner shows me how to break apart the spreads and the page numbers remain in the correct position, but when I Export to PDF it reverts to all the page numbers on the same side (left). However, I can break apart the spreads in the document setup box, but the same thing happens. In perfect bound books the page numbers should be odd # on right and even # on left, or however they are set up.

Sorry to trouble you with this,

Bill

rob day

Community Expert

Your original post doesn’t mention a bleed problem. In any case with perfect binding you would never want to go to the trouble of spliting the pages to create a manual inside bleed because when the printer imposes the pages any inside bleed would get removed—it doesn’t matter what the inside bleed content contains.

You must be using an older version of ID? If that‘s the case you can still view single pages as spreads in Acrobat via the View menu