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OzPhotoMan
OzPhotoMan
Inspiring
September 17, 2022
Answered

Insert pages and set threads to new pages

  • September 17, 2022
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Hi all, 

I have a 123 page document and wish to insert 6 new pages in the middle. However, the text threads remain with the old pages. Is there a way to insert the new pages and have the exisitng text threads move to the in / out ports of the new pages? Or do I have to do it manually?

I have tried to do it manually by picking up the out port and dropping it into the in port on the next page, but that pushes the new page to the end of the document.   

 

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Correct answer Eugene Tyson

OK, I haver tried that before and that works, but that brought up another problem. Resolvable by reworking the document, but..

If you look at the first screen dump vs the second, by inserting the page break it changes the layout, moving the text past the image. Is there a way to overcome that? Can I link the image frames to the text frames so they all move together?


You should anchor your images.

You can cut them - and paste them into their own paragraph so they are flowing with the text.

 

https://helpx.adobe.com/ie/indesign/using/anchored-objects.html

 

 

2 replies

Peter Spier
Peter Spier
Community Expert
September 17, 2022

Dumb question here, perhaps, but if you want to reflow the text into pages inserted in the middle, how is that functionally different from inserting them aat the end?

OzPhotoMan
OzPhotoManAuthor
Inspiring
September 17, 2022

It's not, but I don't need to reflow the text in the pages inserted in the middle past the endo of those inserted pages. Basically I am inserting a completely new chapter in the middle of the book. Once that chapter is complete, there will be no need for reflow past the end of that new chapter, although of course I will need to reflow text in all the pages relevant to that chapter. Hope that makes sense.   

Peter Spier
Peter Spier
Community Expert
September 17, 2022

Not really. I would break the text flow at the point it is complete for that section and .insert the new pages at that point.

But I may not understand your layout...

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Eugene Tyson
Community Expert
September 17, 2022

That shouldn't happen.

I can't think of a reason why a page would move to the end of the document. 

 

If you click the outport

Hold down alt

You can click on each of the new pages and it should flow to the new pages.

 

You'll see the icon change when you press alt letting you know the behaviour is different, you don't need to land on the port, just click the text frame.

OzPhotoMan
OzPhotoManAuthor
Inspiring
September 17, 2022

I can't seem to get that to work. To expand, all existing pages are already threaded. I have a mix of text frames and image frames in the pages.

  1. I insert two new pages in the middle and create a blank text frame in each
  2. I click on the out port in the page containg text before the first blank page.
  3.  I hold alt down, then click in the first new page.
  4.  The text from the page after the two new pages is inserted.

 

I dont wan't that, I want the new pages to be blank but with the threads added to existing text frames. 

OzPhotoMan
OzPhotoManAuthor
Inspiring
September 19, 2022

Anchoring objects is quite powerful

If you're having trouble let me know.


Hi Eugene. 

If I have an image that is full size on one page, how do I anchor that? 

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