AutoNumbering - Not numbering black pages....

[bigrockford]

I have a client that is building a simple 2 spread document. They will be printing on color copier 2sided letter. They have pages that must start on right side. They have blank pages on left side for filler. They are using autonumbering in thier template footers. InDesign is numbering the "blank pages". SO you get (first page) 1 - 2 - 3 - "blank" (which is 4, but shouldnt be numbered) - then 5. Is there a way to tell indesign to not number these and get page numbering to reflow?

Note: You cant see the page number on the black page, it is just applying number to page so next page is one higher.

Please any thoughts?

 

[bigrockford]

sorry. Black is suppose to be BLANK.

 

[Eggles]

So you want to number only the right side pages? I can think of two ways to do this, both fairly long-winded. (1) manually placing the number on each right hand page or (2) by inserting section breaks between each pair of left and right pages and restarting the numbering each time. Someone else may have a more elegant method.

 

[vakohles]

This can be done in a number of ways. I would use master pages. Set up a second master page. With the auto numbering on the left side only. Then apply it to the pages of your choice. (Let me know if you need more details for this)

As for setting up sections use the pages palette select Numbering & Sections from the drop down arrow. Set up the start and end of a section in this way for longer documents. This feature will allow for you to have the blank page and then the numbering starting over at 1 OR having it continue on to 5, 6, 7, blank, and so forth.

Hope that helps.

 

[Genimuse]

I may be misreading you, but it sounds like you're suggesting that the blank pages not "count" in the numbering at all, so that you might have something like:

Physical page 1, has content, labeled page 1
Physical page 2, has content, labeled page 2
Physical page 3, has content, labeled page 3
Physical page 4, is blank, no label
Physical page 5, has content, labeled page 4
etc.

If that's the case, I advise against it, as at least a hundred or more years of standardized folio usage accustoms almost all readers to all of the odd-numbered pages being on the right and all of the even-numbered pages being on the left. If you ask someone to show you a given page number in a book, watch them as they automatically (and unconsciouly) adapt to looking at right-hand pages if you give them an odd number or left-hand pages if you give them an even number.

But then that's probably not what you mean. If you just mean the page number shouldn't appear, I agree that the easiest method, by far, is to add another master page that has no page number on it and use that for the blank pages in your layout instead of your normal master page.

 

[bigrockford]

No, Genimuse, you are correct. They dont want it to count. And you make a great point. I will see what they say to that.