Missing Pages when Autoflowing

[cvernon0]

Hi everyone,

I'm a novice InDesign user and I'm having a problem autoflowing RTF file text into a document. I've already autoflowed one article into this document (which is now 49 pages long). When I try to add another article (75 pages long) InDesign will only autoflow the first 8 pages or so and then stops. Why is this happening? My only suspicion is that the file may be too long, is there any way to avoid this? Thanks a lot for any suggestions,

 

[Eggles]

I think I have read there is a problem autoflowing beyond a certain number of pages (can't recall the number). Simplest solution is to create a second file for the second document. If it is to be printed inhouse, you can use the Book feature to get everything to print at once. Otherwise make PDFs of the two completed docs and then add them together with Acrobat. If you are using auto page numbering, you can specify the page number of the second doc to start at whatever page you like in the document set-up.

 

[Eggles]

This might help:

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@1019.mVief9N4Dne.5790017@.3bbd0c31

 

[Eggles]

That link didn't seem to work too well. Try again.

http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/webx?128@1019.mVief9N4Dne.5790017@.3bbd0c31

 

[Eggles]

For some reason the link won't paste correctly. Go to Adobe's User to User forums (

http://www.adobe.com/support/forums/main.html).

Click on the link to the Indesign Windows forum. Under Forum Search, enter the term 'autoflow' and then click on the thread titled 'text frames and links no go' (tonight it's the ninth thread in the search list). Make sure you read all the posts in the thread by clicking on the 'show all messages' button. It might help you with your problem.

 

[cvernon0]

Thanks for the advice Eggles, I was considering using the Book Function, but I don't how to make sure that the master pages, para styles and char styles are globally uniform across multiple docs within 1 book. How do you ensure uniformity within a book?

 

[Eggles]

Use a template. That is, set everything up how you want it consistent between docs - margins, page size, master pages etc and save as a template. Then create each of your documents by opening the template and saving with the appropriate name.