Hi all!!
I am making a booklet for one of my products and the booklet is fairly big say some 100 pages will be in it and the dimension is 144 mm in length and 105 mm in height. Now if I add even few lines on the page then I have to set all the pages as the matter does not adjust by itself .
Is there any way by which the matter can move by itself from one customized page to another. Can it be like various word processors that we use in which adding few lines takes the content beneath the lines to another page.
Regards,
Techparag
Hi Parag
Though I have created a huge book (1200 pages) with DRAW, I don't recommend to use DRAW for such jobs if the user is nor familier with macros and VBA. I programmed my own macros for automating certain tasks in DRAW & so it was easier for me to work with such job.
Any ways, the answer to your question is :
Create paragraph text. Once text is overflown (you should see a tiny triangle in the text hanger). Click on the triangle. Navigate to next page and drag a paragraph frame to make the text flow continuously. By this you will link the paragraph frames over pages.
Anand
Anand:
Thanks for your reply.
Let me explain what I am doing. I am making booklet for one of my product. The length of booklet when it is open is 144 mm and height is 105 mm. So when booklet is closed the length is 72 mm. I hope you get this. I will explain what I do for adding content
1. I select page layout as A3 and make small boxes of 144 mm in length and 105 mm in height. Then I add content in this page. So there will be 50 boxes of this type as the booklet is of 100 pages. Each box will have content of two pages as the box is divided by the line which resembles the place where the printer will stable and fold the booklet.
2. Now, here is the pain. If the booklet is ready and if I decide to add some new feature in the product and that content should be on page two as the sequence is important then I have to adjust next 98 pages manually as the content from page 3 to 98 will not shift by itself like word processor.
Is there any solution for this?
Parag
Parag said:1. I select page layout as A3 and make small boxes of 144 mm in length and 105 mm in height.
If the page size is 105x144 mm you must setup you page as 105x144 m. Don't use A3 or A4 for this. If it's a booklet, double click on the page border, setup your page as 210x144 (105x144 x2), then go to "Layout" and choose "Booklet" and "facing pages".
Parag said:2. Now, here is the pain. If the booklet is ready and if I decide to add some new feature in the product and that content should be on page two as the sequence is important then I have to adjust next 98 pages manually as the content from page 3 to 98 will not shift by itself like word processor.
What you need to do is to create a guides in the Master Page ( for see on all pages) and add Tabs to your Paragraph Text (you can do in the screen at the top of your text or you can go to the Text menu / tabs)
Hi ParagThe way you do the job is NEVER convenient. Especially the book you are working on. I prefer to create the custom page size of 105 mm Height x 72 mm width and create 100 pages to work on. Then set DRAW to show facing pages. This makes the handling of job much easier for output. You must be aware that final printing of your job will be done on a bigger sized paper and either you or you pre-press vendor will have to set up the pages so that these will be printed in sequence and back to back correctly.You are unnecessarily taxing yourself by adopting a wrong method.
Parag said:1. I select page layout as A3 and make small boxes of 144 mm in length and 105 mm in height. Then I add content in this page. So there will be 50 boxes of this type as the booklet is of 100 pages. Each box will have content of two pages as the box is divided by the line which resembles the place where the printer will stable and fold the booklet.
See the attached file where I have placed the text in linked frames. Hope this helps you.
Ok I will follow you but after your said that writing macros is one of the best options I started studying macros and found that when I record macros and open it in editor many options like delete and copy are commented out. I was trying to study the macro script so that it can be repeated but I am not getting why the VB editor comments out the things in the script.
Hi
I am not a core programmer. Even I have learned by recording macros within DRAW and studying it, books on VB & net search. Some commands that need a object or a variable to be defined may not be supported in recording.