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Layers from one page showing on a different page...is that how it works?

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June 5, 2018
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I have one master page (A-Master) that is blank. I have no need for a master page since neither of the two pages will be sharing any copy.

Page 1 has text and photos in respective layers.

Page 2 is showing the same text/photo layers as pages 1; including it's own.

So, what if I had 50 pages? Each independent page would display all the other pages layers, as well? Am I missing something in the setup that would stop it from doing this or is this how InDesign has always worked and I'm having a brain hiccup?

I've worked with InDesign before, but coming back to it I just noticed that it's doing this on my project.

I've searched the community boards, but haven't found anything on there either...nor searching it in the web.

I would just like to confirm if it's one way or the other and how to fix it if possible.

Thank you.

indesigncs6

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skillful_speaker15A8Author

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My issue fixed itself. It must've been something I did without realizing it. Each of my pages are now only displaying their own layers. I have no idea what I did with the previous document. To test it, I created a new document and created three pages with different copy on each page. Each page only displayed their own layers.

So, there must be something that will force it to display layers within all pages.

Again, thank you everyone for responding and I apologize I don't have a more concise fix. I'll continue testing to see if i can duplicate the issue I had and if I do...I'll make sure to re-post it here and how to fix it...if the undo shortcut doesn't fix it.

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SJRiegel

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jesusg1116423 wrote
So, what if I had 50 pages? Each independent page would display all the other pages layers, as well? Am I missing something in the setup that would stop it from doing this or is this how InDesign has always worked and I'm having a brain hiccup?

You shouldn't generally need separately named layers for each page. You could have three or four document layers, and use them on all pages. For instance:

Text

Captions

Photos

dannygarber

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The layers are for the entire document. What appears on them page to page is what you put on them.

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skillful_speaker15A8Author

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So, if each independent page had the following:

page 1 has 50 layers

page 2 has 30 layers

page 3 has 19 layers

...in the end...each page would show 99 layers because there are a total of 99 layers in the document?

Yikes...that makes for a messy document. I just don't remember it being that way. I would have thought that each page would be independent of each other unless they shared a master document with copy in it.

I'll need to create page groups and make sure each group contain their respective page layers. This way, when I'm on page 3...I don't edit what's on page 1 by accident.

Either way, thank you for responding.

dannygarber

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I think it's a workflow issue. Every layer you create is visible on every page. As SJRiegel stated, just create layers for images, text, backgrounds, etc. On each page place the text on the text layer, images on the images layer, logos on the logos layer, etc. It's kind of overkill to create separate layers for each specific page. If it's a question of searching for a specific image on a specific page, use the links palette and clicking on the title will bring you to the page (or use the drop down menu to navigate to the page).

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