Synchronize (synchronise) book causing graphics to move???

[puffmoike]

I'm creating a book with approximately 22 chapters.

There are about 40 figures in the book. They are all on stand-alone pages, with a different Master than the main text.

Because the design is evolving as I add more content I have been using Synchronize Book, primarily to tweak and/or add Paragraph and Character styles, but also adding some Master Page tweaks. I have all selections ticked in Synchronise Options.

I am seeing what feels like very strange behaviour, where some graphics frames are moving upwards immediately after I synchronise. Some graphics do not move. If the frames move then it is by a consistent amount, but that amount is determined by whether the figure is on a recto or verso page.

This is how the page looks pre-sync (selected frame manually added, and then illustrator file placed).

After syncing graphics frame on the left hand (verso) pages move upwards a small amount:

If I manually move this page to the right-hand (recto) side then I see similar, but more extreme, behaviour after a sync:

However, to reiterate, about half the pages I have with figures aren't displaying this behaviour. I feel like I have created them in identical fashion, but the figures don't move after synching. Can't for the life of me work out how they differ from the pages that are being modified. As best I can tell they do not have any Object Styles applied.

(I also have text frames with pullquotes on most (regular) pages of the book which are placed in essentially identical fashion, all of which do have an Object Style applied, none of which move after synching.)

Can anybody suggest

1. what might be going on?
2. a possible fix?

There are about forty figures in total (so enough to be a pain, but few enough that I will happily rebuild all figures pages from scratch if anybody has any suggestions). They are all on the same size artboards in a single Illustrator file.

[@mj]

That is odd behavior puffmoike​.

It must be picking some setting off the Style Source document.

Try embedding it inside a the text frame.

HTH

[jeff_moore]

Hmm. I recall seeing similar behavior with .PS files containing multiple images and

separate paths in the same file. What if you separate a couple of the individual illustrations

into their own .AI files? and replace the current one with these, as a test to see if they still move.

-- j

[puffmoike]

jeff_moore  wrote

What if you separate a couple of the individual illustrations

into their own .AI files? and replace the current one with these, as a test to see if they still move.

-- j

Had my hopes up for this, as it seemed like an easy fix, but I exported the artboards as individual PDFs and the behaviour persisted when syncing.

[puffmoike]

FWIW changing the Synchronise Options so that Master Pages is not selected looks like it prevents the graphic frames being moved (but simply doing this isn't a longterm fix, because I may need to tweak other Master Pages once I've finished adding all the content to the 22 chapters). This suggests to me that I haven't set up the Master pages for the Figure pages in an accepted fashion.