Indesign Flow issue 1

[ET456]

Hello,

My fellow worker and I produce magazines, books and booklets on InDesign CS2. Now, for a while now we've encountered a peculiar flow problem and we don't know how to fix it or circumvent it. Here it is:

When we're trying to outflow overflowing text, we click on the red box and hit shift+click, but instead of flowing it from page to page, creating text boxes within the proper margins, Indesign CS2 starts skipping every other page and creating very small text boxes continuing as such until all our text has been flowed (sometimes up to 250 pages or more, even though it could have done it in half of that). Please help us! Thank you so much.

ET456

 

[jmgalvin]

You might try making a Master text frame and applying it to all pages. then click inside that.

You can search ID help under "flow text" for more options.

Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4

 

[ET456]

Thanks for the reply.

I did not have a master text frame set up. I did some research and the ID help said:

To flow text automatically

With the loaded text icon displayed, hold down Shift as you do one of the following:
Click the loaded text icon in a column to create a frame the width of that column. InDesign creates new text frames and new document pages until all text is added to the document.
Click inside a text frame that is based on a master text frame. The text autoflows into the document page frame and generates new pages as needed, using the master frame’s attributes. (See About masters, stacking order, and layers.)
If you hold down Shift+Alt (Windows) or Shift+Option (Mac OS) when you click using the loaded text icon, no new pages are added.

So yes, I tried it with a master text frame and it worked, but I have also had it work without master text frames, but not consistently. Have you had it work without master text frames as well? Shouldn't that be possible also? I suppose it isn't that big of a deal. I'll ask Adobe to add that. Thanks for the help, perhaps you can clarify this issue a bit for me.

ET

 

[jmgalvin]

Master text frame always helps. When you don't have it, ID has to take the text frame properties from the previous frame and that's where the problems ensue - as you have experienced on and off.

Since it's so easy to set up a master or 2 and customized the masters as desired, I think it's worth it to use them instead of taking a chance and having to redo things. I'm conservative with all this stuff.



Using OSX 10.3.9 on a G4