How to Split and Center a Text Box Across Two Pages in InDesign

[diego_4819]

Hello everyone, quite a newbie here. 

 

I'm creating a timeline that is split into 3 pages. 

I'm adding text boxes for the centuries and one of them falls in between 2 pages. 

Is there a way to have the text centered like the other boxes, but split correctly in the different pages? 

The page wil be cut where the black dashed line is.

Not sure if i made myself clear, hopefully the screenshot will be helpful

Thanks!

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[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Is the design too large to be printed in one piece? 

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@diego_4819 wrote:

Is there a way to have the text centered like the other boxes, but split correctly in the different pages? 

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Yes and no. 

You should rather change the width of the pages - to move and keep together this TF on either side. 

Abs your design is a bit wrong - 850 should be moved to the left - so would've to be split as well. 

And 900 should be almost in the same place as 850 is right now - should be over the right edge of the TF you want to split. 

[diego_4819]

Sadly, it is: it's made of 3 A3 sheets.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

Sadly, it is: it's made of 3 A3 sheets.

By @diego_4819

Then you probably will need to split it into 4x A3 pages.

Don't cut your TFs in the middle of the century... but then you'll still have to have full 100s cut in the middle anyway...

How it will be "processed" after printing? 

[diego_4819]

This is a middle school assignment so I can't quite do as i want. The screenshot is just a small portion of course, as it covers about 10 centuries and I've made it so 1mm = 1 year, as there are a lot of infos to be added.

All the infos will be added before printing.

After printing, it will be just cut and glued together to make it a longer sheet. 

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

This is a middle school assignment so I can't quite do as i want. The screenshot is just a small portion of course, as it covers about 10 centuries and I've made it so 1mm = 1 year, as there are a lot of infos to be added.

All the infos will be added before printing.

After printing, it will be just cut and glued together to make it a longer sheet. 

By @diego_4819

Then I think the best option for you would be as per my other reply - do as one piece and then print as a "banner".

[diego_4819]

Thank you, will try this, looks like the best option.

[Robert at ID-Tasker]

And how will you print it? 

You could make it in one piece, export as PDF and print from Acrobat(*) - then, when printing, select BANNER option in the printer's driver - and set the overlap. 

(*) You might experience some problems when printing directly from InDesign, so it's best to export PDF and print from Acrobat. 

[Dave Creamer of IDEAS]

I would make the center section (800-850) slight larger than the others. Then put an frame with runaound set to Both Right & Left Sides. 

It might be hard to tell, but the text still reads left-to-right.