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InDesign - Master Pages Based On Master (facing pages)

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February 16, 2018
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Simple facing document with one master page A (facing pages) and two master pages (facing pages) based on Master A.

Master page A applied to all pages.

WHEN APPLYING Master page B on a right page, one element disappears on the left page???

Been trying to find a solution for over a year. In it again now, and still cannot find a solution.

Please help! My students are near an exam, and the Based on option is necessary.

indesign master pages based on problem

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Barb Binder

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And I'm happy to take a quick look. You can put the file (or just a few pages of the file) on dropbox and post a link here (public) or message me by hovering over my name (private).

~Barb

~Barb at Rocky Mountain Training

MaC_CSRS

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Thank you Barb!

Here is the link DropBox to the document in question : Dropbox - C17-exercice SECTION.indd

And a link to a video demonstrating the problem : Dropbox - feb162018-masterPAGE InDegisn problem.mov

InDesign 13.0.1

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SJRiegel

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Go back to Master page A, and make sure that none of the elements cross over the center line. An object meant to be on the left-hand-page could be mapped to the right-hand one if its right edge is on the right-hand page.

MaC_CSRS

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Hello SJ!

Yeah... done that. Nothing crosses over...

In fact, when the master page B is not «Based on» (and everything copy/paste on) there is no problem. But what is the use of «Based on» if it doesn’t work. I had that problem intermittently with my students last year, but couldn’t find a way out.

Here a link to my document : Dropbox - C17-exercice SECTION.indd

Thanks!

Steve Werner

Community Expert

Version of InDesign? What operating system? Please provide screen captures to help us understand.

MaC_CSRS

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Hello Steve!

Here is my document : Dropbox - C17-exercice SECTION.indd

And a video demonstrating my problem : Dropbox - feb162018-masterPAGE InDegisn problem.mov

Not the first time this happens. As if the «Based on» doesn't work properly.

Thank you!!

MaC_CSRS

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Thanks for taking the time to keystroke this, Rob. I have never based two custom masters on a single master before—I just build them sequentially. So you think that was the issue?

I started there, but after unlinking/relinking I had identical results linking C to either A or B.

Based on your answer, I'll continue my sequential master page builds. B based on A, C based on B, D based on C, etc. But I am now curious if you, or others base multiple masters on A.

~Barb

Hello Barb,

I just read your comment to Rob.

On my part, as a teacher, I always teaches to use the Base on option, and it always worked, until last year, after a update of InDesign. Gave me a lot of problems during a exam last year. I hoped it would be fixed, but it didn’t.

Thanks again!

Danielle

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