How do i fix the page spacing on this project?

Forum|Forum|9 months ago
June 7, 2025
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I keep having this issue where some of the page spreads have a huge vertical space between them, and I'm not sure how to get rid of it??

I've tried setting the vertical pasteboard options to zero, but this only resets the ones that are currently spaced correctly already.

How to

Correct answer rob day

See link to file here—https://www.transfernow.net/dl/20250610n83ZrUXq (it's a large file so i can't drag and drop)

Looks like there are some hidden objects on the pastboard. I ran this script to remove them, which dropped the file size from 100mb to 20mb and fixed the gap problem. I’ve attached the fixed file and here is the script:

var p = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
var c = 0
for (var i = 0; i < p.length; i++){
    try {
        if (p[i].parentPage == null) {
            p[i].remove()
            c++
        } 
    }catch(e) {
    }
};

alert(c + " Items removed from the pasteboard") 
 
 
 
 

Abhishek Rao

Community Manager

Hi @Mary35352402nyxk,

I'm checking in to see if the expert's suggestion helped fix the issue. If you're still seeing the problem, feel free to share a few more details, like your InDesign version, operating system, and whether this happens across all files or just this one.

Looking forward to hearing how it's going!

Abhishek

M

Mary35352402nyxkAuthor

Participant

Yeah, I've tried following the above advice, but it's still not been fixed yet. So far it's only been happening with just this one file; the other ones are fine, so I think maybe this one has been corrupted somehow? It was a file that was duplicated from another file that was created by my colleague last year on a different Mac (not sure of the specs).

Please see my software/hardware info below:

Adobe InDesign ver. 20.3.1

Hardware ver. MacBook Pro 14, Apple M3 pro chip, memory 18gb

OS version Sequoia 15.5

rob day

Correct answer

Community Expert

See link to file here—https://www.transfernow.net/dl/20250610n83ZrUXq (it's a large file so i can't drag and drop)

Looks like there are some hidden objects on the pastboard. I ran this script to remove them, which dropped the file size from 100mb to 20mb and fixed the gap problem. I’ve attached the fixed file and here is the script:

var p = app.activeDocument.allPageItems;
var c = 0
for (var i = 0; i < p.length; i++){
    try {
        if (p[i].parentPage == null) {
            p[i].remove()
            c++
        } 
    }catch(e) {
    }
};

alert(c + " Items removed from the pasteboard") 
 
 
 
 